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動詞

befind (三人称単数 現在形 befinds, 現在分詞 befinding, 過去形および過去分詞形 befound)

1. (transitive, archaic) To find; discover.
   • 1898, Maurice Maeterlinck, Wisdom and Destiny, page 4:

     It is well that the thinker should give his thoughts to the world, though it must be admitted that wisdom befinds itself sometimes in the reverse of the sage's pronouncement.

   • 1966, Johann Melchior Dinglinger, ‎Joachim Menzhausen, At the court of the Great Mogul, page 52:

     Farther in the height befinds itself […]

   • 2009, A. J. Marshall, The Bastion Prosecutor: Episode 3:

     Until after a full celestial epoch, the fairest place was befound and it was bequest them.

2. (transitive, obsolete) To invent; contrive.
3. (passive, obsolete) To be found; be.