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Behave
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Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.] He did behave his anger ere 't was spent. Shak.
2. To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively. Those that behaved themselves manfully. 2 Macc. ii. 21.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To act; to conduct; to bear or carry one's self; as, to behave well or ill.