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Becalm. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Becalm v. [f. BE- 2 + CALM v.]

1   1.  trans. To make calm or still; to calm, quiet; fig. to assuage, mitigate, soothe, tranquilize.

2 1613.  Bp. Hall, Holy Panegyr., 77. He … hath becalmed the world, and shut the iron gates of warre.

3 a. 1649.  Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 38. Thou becalm’st Mind’s easeless anguish.

4 1718.  Pope, Odyss., IV. 515. What power becalms the innavigable seas?

5 1873.  W. Mayo, Never Again, xxxii. 417. Thy medic touch becalms my throbbing brow.

6   2.  Naut. To shelter from, or deprive (a ship) of, wind; usually in pass. To be becalmed: to lie motionless for want of wind.

7 1595.  Maynarde, Drake’s Voy. (1849), 8. Being becalmed under the lee of the land.

8 1627.  Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., xiii. 62. To martiall … those squadrons … a good berth or distance from each other, that they becalme not one another.

9 1704.  in Lond. Gaz., No. 4033/1. The Charles Gally … being becalmed, was attacked.

10 1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 1. The fleet was becalmed off the Godwin Sands.

11   b.  fig.

12 1559.  Mirr. Mag., 196 (R.). I and mine becalm’d from hatred’s blast.

13 1672.  Dryden, Conq. Granada, I. V. i. 88. ’Twas Life becalm’d, without a gentle Breath.

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