bewared

English

Verb

bewared

1. (obsolete) simple past and past participle of beware
   • 1854, John Dryden, “The Cock and the Fox”, in Robert Bell, editor, The Poetical Works, page 61:

     But idiots only may be cozened twice:
     Once warned is well bewared; [...]

   • 1868, John Milton, “Accedence Commenced Grammar”, in Charles R. Sumner, transl., The Prose Works, page 445:

     Cavissem, si prævidissem, I had bewared if I had foreseen.

   • 1864, Frank Forester, The Complete Manual for Young Sportsmen, page 77:

     Like the proverbial man of one book, the man of one gun is to be bewared.

Anagrams

• bedwear