"beclap" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1605, Tourneur, Worldes Folly",
          "text": "He so besmouched her, and she so beclapped him, and there tumbling together, as merrie as they would wish, I sighed to thinke, what a supper they would haue after break-fast.",
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          "ref": "1886, The Nation, volume 43, page 414",
          "text": "No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit.",
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          "ref": "1891, Littell's living age, volume 191, page 260",
          "text": "In the course of his table-talk, during the French war, the ex-chancellor once remarked that, though the Prussian people huzza'd and beclapped their great Frederick when alive, […]",
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          "ref": "1903, in New outlook (Alfred Emanuel Smith), volume 74, page 936",
          "text": "He who has loved quiet, who has so long shunned publicity, must school himself to be cheered and beclapped and huzzaed by thousands every time he lets himself be seen."
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        "To clap for; to applaud."
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          "text": "No one is so beclapped as the author of a popular drama bowing over his own footlights; the artists and romancers of the daily press are modester than they themselves would be willing to admit.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1891, Littell's living age, volume 191, page 260",
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          "ref": "1903, in New outlook (Alfred Emanuel Smith), volume 74, page 936",
          "text": "He who has loved quiet, who has so long shunned publicity, must school himself to be cheered and beclapped and huzzaed by thousands every time he lets himself be seen."
        }
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        "To clap for; to applaud."
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