"begrip" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From be- + grip. Compare begripe.",
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          "ref": "1911, William Morris, May Morris, The Collected Works of William Morris:",
          "text": "Then the girdled hilt seiz'd he, the Wolf of the Scyldings, The rough and the sword-grim, and drew forth the ring-sword, Naught weening of life, and wrathful he smote then So that there on her halse the hard edge begripped, [...]",
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          "ref": "1913, Archibald Allan, Space and personality:",
          "text": "They try to begrip by conceptions that which no conception can grasp save when conception is full-open with consciousness, and identical with it.",
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          "ref": "1913, George Jean Nathan, Henry Louis Mencken, The smart set: a magazine of cleverness:",
          "text": "Then parted Frowin and Garnum, and, hands begripped, they solemnly repeated the foster-brother oath: \"Thy kin will I protect; thy honor will I guard. Parted or together, when thou diest then will I die also: [...]",
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          "text": "A blissful/blessed body, arrayed in a rich manner in royal garments: all with glistening gold his gown was hemmed, with many a precious pearl placed thereon, and a girdle of gold begripped his waist; a great mantle was over that, [...]",
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          "text": "He came to be known as Peritus because he seemed expert at every task he begripped him.",
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        "To grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp."
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        "(transitive) To grip around or about; get a grip on; grasp."
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          "text": "A blissful/blessed body, arrayed in a rich manner in royal garments: all with glistening gold his gown was hemmed, with many a precious pearl placed thereon, and a girdle of gold begripped his waist; a great mantle was over that, [...]",
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