Cover of album BEHOLD [THE TRILOGY] by Cosmokickerr
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BEHOLD [THE TRILOGY]

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word-forming element of verbs and nouns from verbs, with a wide range of meaning: "about, around; thoroughly, completely; to make, cause, seem; to provide with; at, on, to, for;" from Old English be- "about, around, on all sides" (the unstressed form of bi "by;" see by (prep.)). The form has remained by- in stressed positions and in some more modern formations (bylaw, bygones, bystander).

The Old English prefix also was used to make transitive verbs and as a privative prefix (as in behead). The sense "on all sides, all about" naturally grew to include intensive uses (as in bespatter "spatter about," therefore "spatter very much," besprinkle, etc.). Be- also can be causative, or have just about any sense required. The prefix was productive 16c.-17c. in forming useful words, many of which have not survived, such as bethwack "to thrash soundly" (1550s) and betongue "to assail in speech, to scold" (1630s).

1 SIDE0△ 821
2 SIDE1 △ 157
3 SIDE2 △ 36
4 SIDE3 △ 64
5 From the depths...[I RISE] 93
6 Low . Poly . Dnb type beat (Into tha nexxt) 114
7 God, Abraham and his Son . 18

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