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Definition of Befools
1. befool [v] - See also: befool
Lexicographical Neighbors of Befools
Literary usage of Befools
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Yule-tide Stories: A Collection of Scandinavian and North German Popular by Benjamin Thorpe (1853)
"But the king's daughter takes shelter in a cottage in the forest, and befools
the prince, as is above related of the courtiers. The conclusion of the story ..."
2. Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon by Franz Delitzsch (1882)
"... to him who slanders and befools, for it thus improves Theodo- tion's TOO ...
11,—not him who befools another, but him who is befooled, is slandered, ..."
3. Commentary on Ecclesiastes, with other treatises, tr. by D.W. Simon by Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg (1860)
"Oppression befools, makes mad : every tyranny has a demoralizing influence on
him who wields it; ... befools, makes mad," the heart is brought under con- ..."
4. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"... who ' befools himself,' and proves his complete ignorance of the gospel.
Like the former work it is written in a very nervous style, showing a great ..."
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