beselve

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ selve.

Verb

beselve (third-person singular simple present beselves, present participle beselving, simple past and past participle beselved)

1. (transitive) To endow with a personhood or self.
   • 1968, Mariane L. Simmel, Kurt Goldstein, The Reach of mind: essays in memory of Kurt Goldstein:

     One can say "That individual is angry," or "Mr. X is angry," but never "The self is angry." Even though, to be sure, anger involves having a self; it pertains to X as "beselved." We agree with common usage.

   • 1992, Brian Massumi, A User's Guide to Capitalism and Schizophrenia:

     The mouth is always available for service; the breast is not. So the anticipation is breastdirected. The beselved body in fact lives more outside its literal Habit.

   • 2012, dao nguyen:

     Two new words are needed, “enworlded” and “beselved.” To be enworlded is to be beselved. To be beside yourself is to be fully conscious.

   • 2012, Paul C. Martin, The Feminine in the Making of God: Highlighting the Sensible Topography of Divinity:

     In Deleuzian terms, the self—beselved body—is a contour map on which are charted the exhilarating lines of desire.