bethink🔊

(obsolete) To think about, to recollect.

To think of (something or somebody); to remind oneself, to consider, to reflect upon.

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However, and just before I was due to take the entrance exam at the age of thirteen, my mother bethought herself that it might be worth taking a look at the place where I was due to be conscripted for the next five formative years.

Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22

One day, among the days, he bethought him of this and fell lamenting for that the most part of his existence was past and he had not been vouchsafed a son, to inherit the kingdom after him, even as he had inherited it from his fathers and forebears; by reason whereof there betided him sore cark and care and chagrin exceeding.

Richard Francis Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

To meditate, ponder; to consider.

To determine, resolve.

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