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Definition of Beseeming

Beseeming
Beseeming Be*seem"ing, n. 1. Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. --Shak. 2. Comeliness. --Baret.
Beseeming
Beseeming Be*seem"ing, a. Becoming; suitable. [Archaic] -- Be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seem"ing*ness, n.
Beseeming
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 Beseeming from wikipedia

- 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...
- his execution. Shakespeare had famously described Margaret: "How ill-beseeming is it in thy ****/ To triumph like an Amazonian trull/ Upon their woes...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- "very sensible and agreeable woman, and much more deeply learned than beseems a fine lady; but between the Spartan laws, the Roman politics, the philosophy...
- west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O, let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me, since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy...
- into relations with the other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities." Roosevelt believed that the United...