beteach

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To show; point out.
  2. To give; hand over; deliver up; yield.
  3. To hand over as a trust; entrust; commend, commit (someone), usually as a wish expressed on departing; recommend to the care of; give charge to.
  4. To commit or commend (one), by the expression of a wish, to (God, the devil, etc.).
  5. To allot; assign.
  6. To teach; instruct.

Word forms

beteach beteaches beteaching betaught

Etymology

From Middle English betechen, from Old English betǣċan (“to make over, give up to impart, deliver, entrust, commend to, betroth, appoint (for), set apart as, dedicate, show, point out, give orders, pursue, hunt”), corresponding to be- + teach.

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