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Beseem  v. t.  (past & past part. beseemed; pres. part. beseeming)  Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for (one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. "A duty well beseeming the preachers." "What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God?"


Beseem  v. i.  To seem; to appear; to be fitting. (Obs.) "As beseemed best."





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"Beseem" Quotes from Famous Books



... moulded to such shape as artists give To beings of immortal youth. Her hands Had decked her sister for the bridal hour With chosen flowers, and lawn whose delicate threads Vied with the spider's spinning. There she stood With such a gentle pleasure in her looks As might beseem a river-nymph's soft eyes Gracing a bridal of the race whose flocks Were pastured on the borders of her stream. She smiled, but from that calm sweet face the smile Was soon to pass away. That very morn The elder of the brothers, ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant
... shame, your honour!" replied Caleb; "it fits an auld carle like me weel eneugh to tell lees for the credit of the family, but it wadna beseem the like o' your honour's sell; besides, young folk are no judicious: they cannot make the maist of a bit figment. Now this fire—for a fire it sall be, if I suld burn the auld stable to make it mair feasible—this fire, besides that it will be an excuse ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
... a step nearer to the corp; an' then his heart fair whammled in his inside. For—by what cantrip it wad ill beseem a man to judge—she was hingin' frae a single nail an' by a single ...
— Stories by English Authors: Scotland • Various
... hoping so. Wunnerful ankles you've a-got, Sarah, and a wunnerful cage o' teeth. Such extremities 'd well beseem a king's ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
... immortal youth. Her hands Had decked her sister for the bridal hour With chosen flowers, and lawn whose delicate threads Vied with the spider's spinning. There she stood With such a gentle pleasure in her looks As might beseem a river-nymph's soft eyes Gracing a bridal of the race whose flocks Were pastured on the borders of her stream. She smiled, but from that calm sweet face the smile Was soon to pass away. That very morn The elder of ...
— Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant - Household Edition • William Cullen Bryant


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