abear (third-person singular simple present abears, present participle abearing, simple past abore, past participle aborne or aborn)
(transitive, now rare, regional) To put up with; to endure. [from 9th c.]
(transitive, obsolete) To bear; to carry. [10th-15th c.]
(transitive, reflexive, obsolete) To behave; to comport oneself. [16th-17th c.]
• (endure): Used in the negative nowadays.
abear (plural abears)
(obsolete) Bearing, behavior. [14th-17th c.]
• Abaré, Areba, Raabe, abare
Source: Wiktionary
A*bear", v.t. Etym: [AS. aberan; pref. a- + beran to bear.]
1. To bear; to behave. [Obs.] So did the faery knight himself abear. Spenser.
2. To put up with; to endure. [Prov.] Dickens.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
25 April 2024
(verb) embody the essential characteristics of or be a typical example of; “The fugue typifies Bach’s style of composition”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
