beshare

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ share. Compare Swedish beskära (“to give; donate; apportion; assign”) and German bescheren (“to give; present with; bestowe”).

Verb

beshare (third-person singular simple present beshares, present participle besharing, simple past and past participle beshared)

1. (transitive) To share about; share across or share with; distribute among others; share.
   • 1862, James Phippen, Descriptive sketches of Rochester, Chatham, and their vicinities:

     [...] now lodges in, with bedding and furniture of the same chamber, with the use of six diaper napkins, six flaxen towels, two table cloths, two pair of sheets, one pair of pillows (beshares), during his natural life, for his own lodging and use only.

   • 2004, Academy of Orthomolecular Medicine, Journal of orthomolecular medicine:

     Rose, my wife, was convinced that things do not happen by chance, that they are “beshared," meant to be.

   • 2005, L. P. Leavell, The Pilgrim's Progress from This World to That Which Is to Come:

     We shall see men that by the world were cut in pieces, burnt in flames, and drowned in the seas, for the love they bear to the Lord of the place. Pliable. This is enough to delight one's heart. How shall we get to beshare these joys?

Anagrams

• Basheer, behears, beshear, he-bears, she-bear