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verb

Beware v. t. To avoid; to take care of; to have a care for. (Obs.) "Priest, beware your beard." "To wish them beware the son."

Beware v. i.

To be on one's guard; to be cautious; to take care; commonly followed by of or lest before the thing that is to be avoided. "Beware of all, but most beware of man!" "Beware the awful avalanche."

To have a special regard; to heed. (Obs.) "Behold, I send an Angel before thee.... Beware of him, and obey his voice." Note: This word is a compound from be and the Old English ware, now wary, which is an adjective. "Be ye war of false prophetis." It is used commonly in the imperative and infinitive modes, and with such auxiliaries (shall, should, must, etc.) as go with the infinitive.

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... (of whom we had previously been warned to beware, because she had not yet forgiven the "Yankees" for their sins) was also present: a beautiful old lady of unquenchable spirit, in whose manner, though she received us with ...

— American Adventures - A Second Trip 'Abroad at home' • Julian Street

... my masters: was it for me to kill the heir apparent? Should I turn upon the true prince? Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules; but beware instinct; the lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter; I was a coward on instinct. I shall think the better of myself and thee during my life; I for a valiant lion, and thou ...

— The Port of Missing Men • Meredith Nicholson

... too high a nature for any Uzzah uncalled to touch it. Yet his Majesty is now pleased to lay by the shining Beams of Majesty, as Phoebus did to Phaeton, that the distance between Sovereignty and Subjection should not bar you of that filial freedom of Access to his Person and Counsels; only let us beware how, with the Son of Clymene, we aim not at the guiding of the Chariot, as if that were the only Testimony of Fatherly Affection; and let us remember, that though the King sometimes lays by the Beams and Rays of Majesty, he ...

— Charles I - Makers of History • Jacob Abbott

... do, beware of doctoring!' was Lord Martindale's rather hasty answer. 'Of doctoring and governessing!—I have seen enough of it, and I resolved my two youngest should run wholesomely wild, never be dosed, and never learn a lesson till they were ...

— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge

... a pyre, as speedily as possible, since he has been the cause of all of the apparitions which have been seen here during the winter." He spoke to her also of her own destiny, and said that she had a notable future in store for her, but he bade her beware of marrying any Greenlander; he directed her also to give their property to the church and to the poor, and then sank down again a second time. It had been the custom in Greenland, after Christianity was introduced there, ...

— The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot, 985-1503 • Various

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