"belap" meaning in English

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      "expansion": "lappe (“loose part of a garment; folded or extended skirt, or loose sleeve, used to hold things; small piece of cloth or mail detached from a garment or coat of mail; a part, portion, share; a person’s lap; (also figuratively) a person’s bosom or breast; (anatomy) a loose part of the body (such as an earlobe or a lobe of the liver); female genitalia; cavity or sinus in the body; (in place names) piece of land at the edge of an estate or parish”)",
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        "t": "skirt; (anatomy) lobe"
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        "t2": "to lap or wrap around, envelop, surround"
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  "etymology_text": "PIE word\n *h₁epi\nFrom Middle English bilappen (“to envelop; to clothe; to surround; to blend, mix”), from bi- (completive, intensifying, or figurative prefix) + lappen (“to wrap; to place so as to enclose or enfold; to encase; to envelop; to clothe; to put on armour; to ensnare, snare”). Lappen is derived from lap, lappe (“loose part of a garment; folded or extended skirt, or loose sleeve, used to hold things; small piece of cloth or mail detached from a garment or coat of mail; a part, portion, share; a person’s lap; (also figuratively) a person’s bosom or breast; (anatomy) a loose part of the body (such as an earlobe or a lobe of the liver); female genitalia; cavity or sinus in the body; (in place names) piece of land at the edge of an estate or parish”) (from Old English læppa (“skirt; (anatomy) lobe”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”)) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).\nThe English word is analysable as be- (prefix meaning ‘about; around’ or ‘completely, utterly’) + lap (“to lap or wrap around, envelop, surround”).",
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          "ref": "[15th century, Julius Zupitza, editor, The Romance of Guy of Warwick. The Second or 15th-century Version. […] (Extra Series; XXV–XXVI) (in Middle English), London: […] [F]or the Early English Text Society by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1875–1876, →OCLC, page 214, lines 7461–7464",
          "text": "There was redy in a wode / Two hundurde knyghtys, þat were gode. / Owte of the wode þey came anon / And belapped vs euerychon.\nThere were ready in a wood / Two hundred knights, that were good. / Out of the wood they came anon / And surrounded us everyone.]",
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          "ref": "1504, Thomas à Kempis, “Of the Corrupcyon of Nature and the Workynge of Grace”, in William Atkynson [i.e., William Atkinson], transl., edited by John K[ells] Ingram, The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi, […] (Extra Series; LXIII), London: […] [F]or the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., […], published 1893, →OCLC, book III, page 251, lines 28–34",
          "text": "For the lytell vertue & strength of that nature the which remayneth / there is as who sayth a lytell sparke of fyre wrapped and hyd in asshes / This is the naturall reason of man belapped with great darkenes / yet hauing dyscrecion of good & yll / of truthe & falsenesse, though it be vnable to fulfyll all that he approueth, nor may nat vse yet the full lyghte of truth / nor his affeccyons helthfully",
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          "ref": "[1513 (date written; first published 1553), Virgil, “The Sext Buik of Eneados”, in Gavin Douglas, transl., The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, […], volume III (in Scots), Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: H. Sotheran & Co., published 1874, →OCLC, chapter VII, page 38, lines 7–10",
          "text": "The wofull pule, with wattir wnluflly, / Withhaldis thaim so at thai may nocht go by; / And Stix, the flude, bylappis thaim about / Nyne tymis, sa close at thai sall neuer wyn out.\nThe woeful pool, with water unlovely, / Withholds them so that they may not go by; / And Styx, the flood, belaps them about / Nine times, so close that they shall never win out.]",
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          "ref": "a. 1530 (date written), [John] Skelton, Here after Foloweth a Litel Boke Called Colyn Cloute […], London: […] [Robert Copland for] me Rycharde Kele […], published 1545?, →OCLC",
          "text": "Ouer this the foresayd laye / Reporte howe the pope may / A holy anker call / Out of the stony wall / And hym a bysshop make / It he on hym dare take / To kepe so harde a rule / To ryde vpon a mule / With golde all betrapped / In purple and paule be lapped",
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          "ref": "1552 November 7 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “A Sermon Preached by M. Hugh Latimer at Grimstorpe, the xxviii. of October, Anno 1552”, in [Augustine Bernher], editor, Fruitfull Sermons Preached by the Right Reuerend Father, and Constant Martyr of Iesus Christ, Master Hugh Latimer, […], London: […] Valentine Sims, published 1596, →OCLC, folio 266, recto",
          "text": "[T]here be many things that pertaine to a Chriſtian man, and yet al thoſe things are conteined in this one thing, that is, loue: be lappeth vp al things in loue.",
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        {
          "ref": "1871, [anonymous], “That, Without Imperfect Meekness Coming before, It is Impossible for a Sinner to Come to the Perfect Virtue of Meekness”, in Henry Collins, editor, The Divine Cloud, […], London, Dublin: Thomas Richardson and Son […]; New York, N.Y.: Henry H. Richardson and Co., →OCLC, page 55",
          "text": "And it may be, if thou knewest not which were perfect meekness, thou wouldst imagine, when thou hadst a little knowledge and feeling of this, that I call imperfect meekenss, that thou hadst almost gotten perfect meekness; and so wouldst deceive thyself, weening that thou wert full meek, when thou wert indeed all belapped in foul stinking pride.\nModernized from a late-14th-century text.",
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        {
          "ref": "1891 November, B. H. Spring, “Dressing the Baby the First Six Months”, in Leroy M[ilton] Yale, Marion Harland, editors, Babyhood: The Mother’s Nursery Guide, Devoted to the Care of Children, volume VII, number 84, New York, N.Y., London: Babyhood Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 386, column 1",
          "text": "Following the traditions of my elders and much of the advice which is generally so freely offered to young mothers, I fashioned skirts with bands so wide and cumbersome, so much belapped and pinned, as to reduce the unfortunate babe to semblance of a small mummy.",
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        "To lap or wrap around (someone or something); to envelop, to surround."
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          "lap#Verb"
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          "wrap",
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          "envelop"
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        "(transitive, chiefly passive voice, obsolete) To lap or wrap around (someone or something); to envelop, to surround."
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          "word": "enfold"
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          "word": "environ"
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  "etymology_text": "PIE word\n *h₁epi\nFrom Middle English bilappen (“to envelop; to clothe; to surround; to blend, mix”), from bi- (completive, intensifying, or figurative prefix) + lappen (“to wrap; to place so as to enclose or enfold; to encase; to envelop; to clothe; to put on armour; to ensnare, snare”). Lappen is derived from lap, lappe (“loose part of a garment; folded or extended skirt, or loose sleeve, used to hold things; small piece of cloth or mail detached from a garment or coat of mail; a part, portion, share; a person’s lap; (also figuratively) a person’s bosom or breast; (anatomy) a loose part of the body (such as an earlobe or a lobe of the liver); female genitalia; cavity or sinus in the body; (in place names) piece of land at the edge of an estate or parish”) (from Old English læppa (“skirt; (anatomy) lobe”), from Proto-Germanic *lappô (“cloth; rag”); further etymology uncertain, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang down loosely (?)”)) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive of verbs).\nThe English word is analysable as be- (prefix meaning ‘about; around’ or ‘completely, utterly’) + lap (“to lap or wrap around, envelop, surround”).",
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          "ref": "[15th century, Julius Zupitza, editor, The Romance of Guy of Warwick. The Second or 15th-century Version. […] (Extra Series; XXV–XXVI) (in Middle English), London: […] [F]or the Early English Text Society by N[icholas] Trübner & Co., […], published 1875–1876, →OCLC, page 214, lines 7461–7464",
          "text": "There was redy in a wode / Two hundurde knyghtys, þat were gode. / Owte of the wode þey came anon / And belapped vs euerychon.\nThere were ready in a wood / Two hundred knights, that were good. / Out of the wood they came anon / And surrounded us everyone.]",
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          "ref": "1504, Thomas à Kempis, “Of the Corrupcyon of Nature and the Workynge of Grace”, in William Atkynson [i.e., William Atkinson], transl., edited by John K[ells] Ingram, The Earliest English Translation of the First Three Books of the De Imitatione Christi, […] (Extra Series; LXIII), London: […] [F]or the Early English Text Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., […], published 1893, →OCLC, book III, page 251, lines 28–34",
          "text": "For the lytell vertue & strength of that nature the which remayneth / there is as who sayth a lytell sparke of fyre wrapped and hyd in asshes / This is the naturall reason of man belapped with great darkenes / yet hauing dyscrecion of good & yll / of truthe & falsenesse, though it be vnable to fulfyll all that he approueth, nor may nat vse yet the full lyghte of truth / nor his affeccyons helthfully",
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        {
          "ref": "[1513 (date written; first published 1553), Virgil, “The Sext Buik of Eneados”, in Gavin Douglas, transl., The Poetical Works of Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, […], volume III (in Scots), Edinburgh: William Paterson; London: H. Sotheran & Co., published 1874, →OCLC, chapter VII, page 38, lines 7–10",
          "text": "The wofull pule, with wattir wnluflly, / Withhaldis thaim so at thai may nocht go by; / And Stix, the flude, bylappis thaim about / Nyne tymis, sa close at thai sall neuer wyn out.\nThe woeful pool, with water unlovely, / Withholds them so that they may not go by; / And Styx, the flood, belaps them about / Nine times, so close that they shall never win out.]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "a. 1530 (date written), [John] Skelton, Here after Foloweth a Litel Boke Called Colyn Cloute […], London: […] [Robert Copland for] me Rycharde Kele […], published 1545?, →OCLC",
          "text": "Ouer this the foresayd laye / Reporte howe the pope may / A holy anker call / Out of the stony wall / And hym a bysshop make / It he on hym dare take / To kepe so harde a rule / To ryde vpon a mule / With golde all betrapped / In purple and paule be lapped",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1552 November 7 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “A Sermon Preached by M. Hugh Latimer at Grimstorpe, the xxviii. of October, Anno 1552”, in [Augustine Bernher], editor, Fruitfull Sermons Preached by the Right Reuerend Father, and Constant Martyr of Iesus Christ, Master Hugh Latimer, […], London: […] Valentine Sims, published 1596, →OCLC, folio 266, recto",
          "text": "[T]here be many things that pertaine to a Chriſtian man, and yet al thoſe things are conteined in this one thing, that is, loue: be lappeth vp al things in loue.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1871, [anonymous], “That, Without Imperfect Meekness Coming before, It is Impossible for a Sinner to Come to the Perfect Virtue of Meekness”, in Henry Collins, editor, The Divine Cloud, […], London, Dublin: Thomas Richardson and Son […]; New York, N.Y.: Henry H. Richardson and Co., →OCLC, page 55",
          "text": "And it may be, if thou knewest not which were perfect meekness, thou wouldst imagine, when thou hadst a little knowledge and feeling of this, that I call imperfect meekenss, that thou hadst almost gotten perfect meekness; and so wouldst deceive thyself, weening that thou wert full meek, when thou wert indeed all belapped in foul stinking pride.\nModernized from a late-14th-century text.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1891 November, B. H. Spring, “Dressing the Baby the First Six Months”, in Leroy M[ilton] Yale, Marion Harland, editors, Babyhood: The Mother’s Nursery Guide, Devoted to the Care of Children, volume VII, number 84, New York, N.Y., London: Babyhood Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 386, column 1",
          "text": "Following the traditions of my elders and much of the advice which is generally so freely offered to young mothers, I fashioned skirts with bands so wide and cumbersome, so much belapped and pinned, as to reduce the unfortunate babe to semblance of a small mummy.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To lap or wrap around (someone or something); to envelop, to surround."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lap",
          "lap#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "wrap",
          "wrap#Verb"
        ],
        [
          "envelop",
          "envelop"
        ],
        [
          "surround",
          "surround#Verb"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "chiefly passive voice",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, chiefly passive voice, obsolete) To lap or wrap around (someone or something); to envelop, to surround."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "enfold"
        },
        {
          "word": "environ"
        },
        {
          "word": "lap"
        },
        {
          "tags": [
            "obsolete"
          ],
          "word": "umbelap"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/bɪˈlæp/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/bəˈlæp/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-æp"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
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  ],
  "word": "belap"
}