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Definition of Beseemed

Beseemed
Beseem Be*seem", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beseemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Beseeming.] [Pref. be- + seem.] 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. --Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God ? --Hocker.
Beseem
Beseem Be*seem", v. i. To seem; to appear; to be fitting. [Obs.] ``As beseemed best.' --Spenser.
Beseem
Beseem Be*seem", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beseemed; p. pr. & vb. n. Beseeming.] [Pref. be- + seem.] 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. --Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God ? --Hocker.

Meaning of Beseemed from wikipedia

- swallowed up by the earth, and of them was he whom We drowned; and it did not beseem Allah that He should be unjust to them, but they were unjust to their own...
- Epigram Μωροσοφία, or Wisdom in Folly "Tom Slothful talks, as slothful Tom beseems," Unknown 1802, October 11 Epigram Each Bond-street buck,' &c. "Each Bond-street...
- his execution. Shakespeare had famously described Margaret: "How ill-beseeming is it in thy ****/ To triumph like an Amazonian trull/ Upon their woes...
- yea or no? GLOUCESTER To say the truth, this fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain, and a leader. TALBOT When...
- thing not a law. Can it be argued seriously that it would have been more beseeming to the judicial process if the postwar courts had undertaken a study of...
- Gaveston to take the Bishop's possessions, Gaveston states, "A prison may beseem his holiness" (1.1.206). Later in the play, the Archbishop of Canterbury...
- into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities. Toward all other nations, large and...
- philosophy. Carlyle reported to Emerson that it was "carefully read, as beseemed, with due entertainment and recognition." He went on: A vigorous Mr T****au...
- of English Epigrams: You must in pulpit treat of matters serious; As it beseems the person and the place; There preach of faith, repentance, hope, and...
- wrote that "they mostly became tyrants and did not fear the king, as it beseemed, because they had divided the kingdom among themselves". Not even the quieter...