"berascal" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "be- + rascal",
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    {
      "form": "berascals",
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        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "berascalling",
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        "participle",
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    },
    {
      "form": "berascalled",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "berascalled",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1743, Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great",
          "text": "She beknaved, berascalled, berogued the unhappy hero, who stood silent, confounded with astonishment, but more with shame and indignation, at being thus outwitted and overreached.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1790, Memoirs of a Social Monster: Or, the History of Charles Price",
          "text": "The brothers berascaled each other till they were hoarse, and our hero was, with regret we mention it, kicked out of doors, which kick was accompanied with a trifling curse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, Thomas Nash, John Payne Collier, Pierce Penniless's supplication to the Devil, page xix",
          "text": "In the pamphlet last mentioned, Nash asserts that the quarrel was entirely of Harvey's \"seeking and beginning, in The Lamb of God [a work mentioned in the ensuing pages], where he and his brother * * * scummered out betwixt them an epistle to the readers against all poets and writers; and M. Lily [the dramatic poet, and author of Pap with a Hatchet] and me byname he beruffianised and berascalled, compared to Martin, and termed us piperly make-plays and make-bates, yet bade us hold our peace, and not be so hardy as to answer him; for, if we did, he would make a bloody day in Paul's Churchyard, and splinter our pens till they straddled again as wide as a pair of compasses.",
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        "To accuse of being a rascal or to treat as a rascal."
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        "(archaic) To accuse of being a rascal or to treat as a rascal."
      ],
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        "archaic"
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  "word": "berascal"
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  "etymology_text": "be- + rascal",
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    {
      "form": "berascals",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "berascalled",
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        "past"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "ref": "1743, Henry Fielding, The Life and Death of Jonathan Wild, the Great",
          "text": "She beknaved, berascalled, berogued the unhappy hero, who stood silent, confounded with astonishment, but more with shame and indignation, at being thus outwitted and overreached.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1790, Memoirs of a Social Monster: Or, the History of Charles Price",
          "text": "The brothers berascaled each other till they were hoarse, and our hero was, with regret we mention it, kicked out of doors, which kick was accompanied with a trifling curse.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1842, Thomas Nash, John Payne Collier, Pierce Penniless's supplication to the Devil, page xix",
          "text": "In the pamphlet last mentioned, Nash asserts that the quarrel was entirely of Harvey's \"seeking and beginning, in The Lamb of God [a work mentioned in the ensuing pages], where he and his brother * * * scummered out betwixt them an epistle to the readers against all poets and writers; and M. Lily [the dramatic poet, and author of Pap with a Hatchet] and me byname he beruffianised and berascalled, compared to Martin, and termed us piperly make-plays and make-bates, yet bade us hold our peace, and not be so hardy as to answer him; for, if we did, he would make a bloody day in Paul's Churchyard, and splinter our pens till they straddled again as wide as a pair of compasses.",
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        "To accuse of being a rascal or to treat as a rascal."
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        "(archaic) To accuse of being a rascal or to treat as a rascal."
      ],
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  "word": "berascal"
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