bequivered
English
editEtymology 1
editAdjective
editbequivered (not comparable)
- Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver for arrows; or, sheathed as in a quiver.
- 1819, Jane Porter, The Scottish Chiefs, page 348:
- Whenever Apollo, or any other bequivered god, or mortal, catches me affecting such maudling company […] he is welcome to transfix me with his sharpest arrow.
- 2010, “English Translation of Parthenio”, in Louise George Clubb, transl., Pollastra and the Origins of Twelfth Night: Parthenio, commedia (1516) with an English Translation, translation of Parthenio by Giovanni Pollastra, →ISBN, page 173:
- How unhappy is the condition of lovers / and of whoever is subject to the bequivered god!
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editVerb
editbequivered
- simple past and past participle of bequiver