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語源 1

From Middle English bitimen (“to happen”); equivalent to be- +‎ time (verb). Compare betide.

動詞

betime (三人称単数 現在形 betimes, 現在分詞 betiming, 過去形および過去分詞形 betimed)

1. (intransitive) To occur; betide.

   c. 1595–1596, W. Shakespere [i.e., William Shakespeare], A Pleasant Conceited Comedie Called, Loues Labors Lost. […] (First Quarto), imprinted in London: By W[illiam] W[hite] for Cut[h]bert Burby, published 1598, OCLC 61366361, [Act IV, scene iii]:

   Away, away, no time ſhalbe omitted, / That will be time and may by vs be fitted.

同意語

• come to pass, transpire; See also Thesaurus:happen

語源 2

From Middle English by-tyme (“by time”); equivalent to by +‎ time.

副詞

betime (not comparable)

1. Betimes.
   • 1868, Mary Frances Cusack, An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800‎^[1]:

     Send succours (lords), and stop the rage betime, Before the wound do grow uncurable; For being green, there is great hope of help."

   • 1907, Michael Drayton, Minor Poems of Michael Drayton‎^[2]:

     Her feature all as fresh aboue, As is the grasse that grows by Doue, as lyth as lasse of Kent: Her skin as soft as Lemster wooll, As white as snow on peakish hull, or Swanne that swims in Trent. 30 This mayden in a morne betime, Went forth when May was in her prime, to get sweet Cetywall, The hony-suckle, the Harlocke, The Lilly and the Lady-smocke, to decke her summer hall.

派生語

• betimely
• betimes

アナグラム

• bite me