bathen

Alternative forms

• bathien

Etymology

From Old English baþian, from Proto-Germanic *baþōną.

Verb

bathen (third-person singular simple present batheth, present participle bathende, simple past and past participle bathed)

1. to bathe
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 2-4.

     And bathed every veyne in swich licour,

     Of which vertu engendred is the flour;