began

Meaning

1. to bego, go over, traverse; get to, come by, fall into, go through, traverse

   c. 994, Ælfric, https://books.google.co.id/books?id=iqCU4ZV4pjoC&pg=PA8De Anno (On the Year)]

   Now, you might understand that the person who goes around a single house has a smaller circuit than the one who goes around the whole city.

2. to go to, visit, care for, cultivate, affect

   Se ðe æcer begǽþ. ― He who cultivates land (acre) … a farmer (Ælfc. Gr. 7; Som. 6, 44.)

3. to occupy, inhabit, dwell, surround, besiege, overrun

   Dēaþes ġeōmerunga mē beēodon, and helle sārnyssa mē beēodon, and iċ on mīnre ġedrefednysse Drihten clypode, and hē of his hālgan temple mīne stemne ġehyrde.

   The wailing of death surrounded me, and the pains of hell surrounded me, and in my distress I called out to the Lord, and from his holy temple he heard me.

   Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church, quoting "Circumdederunt me gemitus"

4. to practise, do, engage in, perform, commit, exercise, attend to, be diligent about, honor, serve, worship, profess; pledge, devote, train oneself

   He begǽþ unmǽtas ― He commits gluttonies. (Deut. 21, 20)

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