Definition of "bethought" []

• Past tense and past participle of bethink. (verb)

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• "Martin bethought himself of the numerous occasions on which he had met Judge Blount at the Morses 'and when Judge Blount had not invited him to dinner."
• "He started and half reached for an open drawer where must have reposed a revolver, then bethought himself and growled, 'This is no bank.'"
• "He went away, and then he bethought him of some other little word with Job."