"beweapon" meaning in English

See beweapon in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: beweapons [present, singular, third-person], beweaponing [participle, present], beweaponed [participle, past], beweaponed [past]
Etymology: From be- (“on, at, upon”) + weapon. Compare Old English bewǣpnian (“to disarm”). Etymology templates: {{pre|en|be|weapon|t1=on, at, upon}} be- (“on, at, upon”) + weapon, {{noncog|ang|bewǣpnian|t=to disarm}} Old English bewǣpnian (“to disarm”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} beweapon (third-person singular simple present beweapons, present participle beweaponing, simple past and past participle beweaponed)
  1. (transitive, often reflexive) To furnish, fit, or supply with a weapon; arm. Tags: often, reflexive, transitive
    Sense id: en-beweapon-en-verb-WQOtYuZ- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with be-

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for beweapon meaning in English (2.1kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "be",
        "3": "weapon",
        "t1": "on, at, upon"
      },
      "expansion": "be- (“on, at, upon”) + weapon",
      "name": "pre"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "bewǣpnian",
        "t": "to disarm"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English bewǣpnian (“to disarm”)",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From be- (“on, at, upon”) + weapon. Compare Old English bewǣpnian (“to disarm”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beweapons",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beweaponing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beweaponed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beweaponed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beweapon (third-person singular simple present beweapons, present participle beweaponing, simple past and past participle beweaponed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms prefixed with be-",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1891, Snorri Sturlson, Heimskringla: - Page 191",
          "text": "And when men were drunk in the evening, King Ingjald spake to Folkvid and Hulvid, the sons of Svipdag, and bade them beweapon themselves and their men even as had been settled earlier in the evening.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, John Van Kirk, The Aconian War - Page 266",
          "text": "[...] their javelins, which were easily unslung and thrown from their pouches from horseback, spurred their mounts forward and were at the surviving German guardsmen before they could unslung their shields or beweapon themselves properly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To furnish, fit, or supply with a weapon; arm."
      ],
      "id": "en-beweapon-en-verb-WQOtYuZ-",
      "links": [
        [
          "fit",
          "fit"
        ],
        [
          "weapon",
          "weapon"
        ],
        [
          "arm",
          "arm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, often reflexive) To furnish, fit, or supply with a weapon; arm."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "reflexive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beweapon"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "be",
        "3": "weapon",
        "t1": "on, at, upon"
      },
      "expansion": "be- (“on, at, upon”) + weapon",
      "name": "pre"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "bewǣpnian",
        "t": "to disarm"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English bewǣpnian (“to disarm”)",
      "name": "noncog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From be- (“on, at, upon”) + weapon. Compare Old English bewǣpnian (“to disarm”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "beweapons",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beweaponing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beweaponed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "beweaponed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "beweapon (third-person singular simple present beweapons, present participle beweaponing, simple past and past participle beweaponed)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English reflexive verbs",
        "English terms prefixed with be-",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1891, Snorri Sturlson, Heimskringla: - Page 191",
          "text": "And when men were drunk in the evening, King Ingjald spake to Folkvid and Hulvid, the sons of Svipdag, and bade them beweapon themselves and their men even as had been settled earlier in the evening.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, John Van Kirk, The Aconian War - Page 266",
          "text": "[...] their javelins, which were easily unslung and thrown from their pouches from horseback, spurred their mounts forward and were at the surviving German guardsmen before they could unslung their shields or beweapon themselves properly.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To furnish, fit, or supply with a weapon; arm."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "fit",
          "fit"
        ],
        [
          "weapon",
          "weapon"
        ],
        [
          "arm",
          "arm"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, often reflexive) To furnish, fit, or supply with a weapon; arm."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "often",
        "reflexive",
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "beweapon"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.