ppl. a. arch. Also 4 biwope, -weped, -wepen, 5–6 by-, bewepte. [f. BEWEEP.] Drowned in tears; marked or disfigured by weeping.
c. 1320. Seuyn Sag. (W.), 1186. He fond his emperice … here visage al biwope.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 661. Al bi-weped for wo.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, IV. 888. That he yow nat biwepen thus ne fynde.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, iv. 24.
1531. Elyot, Gov. (1580), 128. Wash cleane your visage and eyen thus bewepte.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. VIII. v. 337. The Prince, all bewept and in emotion, followed his Father.
