beheld (v.)

past tense and past participle of behold.

Entries linking to beheld

Old English bihaldan (West Saxon behealdan) "give regard to, hold in view," also "keep hold of; belong to," from be- + haldan, healdan (see hold (v.)). Related: Beheld; beholding. A common West Germanic compound, compare Old Saxon bihaldan "hold, keep," Old Frisian bihalda "hold, possess, keep, protect, save," Old High German bihaltan, German behalten, but "[t]he application to watching, looking, is confined to English" [OED]. Related: Beholding.

Trends of beheld

adapted from books.google.com/ngrams/. Ngrams are probably unreliable.

More to Explore

panorama

1796, "a painting on a revolving cylindrical surface," representing scenes too extended to be beheld all at once, coined...

carrel

"ring" (for example, in a c. 1330 description of Stonehenge: "þis Bretons renged about þe feld, þe karole of þe stones beheld...

see

Middle English sēn, from Old English seon (Anglian sean) "be or become aware of by means of the eye; look, behold;" also "perceive mentally, understand; experience; visit (a place); inspect" (contracted class V strong verb; past tense seah, past participle sewen), from Proto-Germ

table

Middle English, from Old French table, tabel "board, square panel, plank; writing table; picture; food, fare" (11c.), and also a survival of late Old English tabele "flat and relatively thin surface of some hard material," especially "writing tablet (of slabs of wood, etc.,), gam

traffic

c. 1500, "trade, commerce," from French trafique (15c.), from Italian traffico (14c.), from trafficare "carry on trade," of uncertain origin, perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *transfricare "to rub across," from Latin trans "across" (see trans-) + fricare "to rub" (see friction),

review

mid-15c., review, revewe, reveue, "a formal inspection of military forces" by a higher official or superior in rank, to judge the effectiveness of their training, from Old French reveue "a reviewing, review" (Modern French revue), noun use of fem. past participle of reveeir "to s

grail

c. 1300, gral, "the Holy Grail," from Old French graal, greal "Holy Grail; cup," earlier "large shallow dish, basin," from Medieval Latin gradalis, also gradale, grasale, "a flat dish or shallow vessel." The original form is uncertain; the word is perhaps ultimately from Latin cr

promise

c. 1400, promisse, "a solemn pledge; a vow; a declaration in reference to the future made by one person to another, assuring the latter that the former will do, or not do, a specified act," from Old French promesse "promise, guarantee, assurance" (13c.) and directly from Latin pr

saloon

1728, an Englished or otherwise deformed variant of salon (q.v.), and originally meaning the same, "spacious room set apart for reception of company or artistic display." The specific sense of "large hall in a public place for entertainment or amusement" is from 1747; especially

paradise

late Old English, "the garden of Eden," from Old French paradis "paradise, garden of Eden" (11c.), from Late Latin paradisus "a park, an orchard; the garden of Eden, the abode of the blessed," from Greek paradeisos "a park; paradise, the garden of Eden," from an Iranian source si

Share beheld

‘cite’

Page URL:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/beheld

HTML Link:

<a href="https://www.etymonline.com/word/beheld">Etymology of beheld by etymonline</a>

APA style:

Harper, D. (n.d.). Etymology of beheld. Online Etymology Dictionary. Retrieved $(datetime), from https://www.etymonline.com/word/beheld

Chicago style:

Harper Douglas, “Etymology of beheld,” Online Etymology Dictionary, accessed $(datetime), https://www.etymonline.com/word/beheld.

MLA style:

Harper, Douglas. “Etymology of beheld.” Online Etymology Dictionary, https://www.etymonline.com/word/beheld. Accessed $(datetimeMla).

IEEE style:

D. Harper. “Etymology of beheld.” Online Etymology Dictionary. https://www.etymonline.com/word/beheld (accessed $(datetime)).

updated on September 28, 2017

Remove ads >

Trending words

1. autumn
2. amen
3. virgin
4. hospitality
5. teacher
6. pride
7. chaos
8. empathy
9. deluge
10. ensconce

Dictionary entries near beheld

behavioral

behaviorism

behaviour

behavioural

behead

beheld

behemoth

behest

behind

behindhand

behold