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bestem
English
Etymology
From be- +? stem.
Verb
bestem (third-person singular simple present bestems, present participle bestemming, simple past and past participle bestemmed)
- (transitive, archaic) To stem completely; stem all about; hinder.
- 1894, Gaius Valerius Catullus, The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus:
- Whence she might overglance the boundless boiling of billows, / Then she would rush to bestem the salt-plain's quivering wavelet / And from her ankles bare the dainty garment uplifting, / Spake she these words […]
- 1894, Gaius Valerius Catullus, The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus:
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
bestem
- first-person singular present indicative of bestemmen
- imperative of bestemmen
Anagrams
- besmet
German
Adjective
bestem
- strong dative masculine/neuter singular superlative degree of gut
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
bestem
- imperative of bestemme
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beseem
English
Etymology
From Middle English besemen, bisemen; equivalent to be- +? seem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b??si?m/
- Rhymes: -i?m
Verb
beseem (third-person singular simple present beseems, present participle beseeming, simple past and past participle beseemed)
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) With some qualifying word: to appear, seem, look.
- (transitive, intransitive, archaic) Without any qualifying word: to be appropriate or creditable.
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 7,[1]
- Give me their bodies, that I may bear them hence
- And give them burial as beseems their worth.
- 1594, Christopher Marlowe, Edward II, London: William Jones,[2]
- Beseemes it thee to contradict thy king?
- 1597, Richard Hooker, Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Book 5, in The Works of Mr. Richard Hooker, London: Andrew Crook, 1666, pp. 180-181,[3]
- Should we hereupon frame a Rule, that what form of speech or behaviour soever is fit for Suiters in a Prince’s Court, the same and no other beseemeth us in our Prayers to Almighty God.
- 1643, Petition of the Commissioners of the Generall Assembly to the Kings Majesty, Edinburgh,[4]
- The Nationall Assembly of this Kirk, from which we have our Commission, did promise in their thanksgiving for the many favours expressed in Your Majesties Letter, their best endeavours to keep the people under their charge, in unity and peace, and in loyalty and obedience to Your Majestie and Your Laws, which we confesse is a duty well beseeming the preachers of the Gospel […]
- 1717, Samuel Croxall (translator), Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. Translated by the most Eminent Hands, London: Jacob Tonson, Book 6, The Story of Tereus, Procne, and Philomela, p. 202,[5]
- Her Vest, with Flow’rs of Gold embroider’d o’er,
- With Grief distress’d, the mournful Matron tore,
- And a beseeming Suit of gloomy Sable wore.
- 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe, Chapter 5,[6]
- “Lady,” said Cedric, “this beseems not; were further pledge necessary, I myself, offended, and justly offended, as I am, would yet gage my honour for the honour of Ivanhoe.”
- c. 1591, William Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 1, Act IV, Scene 7,[1]
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