adj. Needing double compensation; a term applied to an offence when from special circumstances the bót was twice that to be paid in an ordinary case:--Gif hwá nunnan mid hǽmedþinge oþþe on hire hrægl oþþe on hire breóst bútan hire leáfe gefó, sié hit twybéte, (twibóte, MS. B.: twybóte, MS. H.) swá wé ǽr be lǽwdum men fundon (in the case of a nun the bót for the offences referred to was twice that in the case of a lay woman; the case of the latter is the subject of sect. 11; Th. i. 68, 13-70, 2), L. Alf. pol. 18; Th. i. 72, 10. Gif hwá lengcten-bryce gewyrce . . . þurh ǽnige heálíce misdǽda, sý ðæt twybéte (twibóte, MS. B.), L. C. S. 48; Th. i. 404, 1. [O. Frs. twi-béte (with the same use as the English word).]