Definition of Bestride. Meaning of Bestride. Synonyms of Bestride

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Definition of Bestride

Bestride
Bestride Be*stride", v. t. [imp. Bestrode, (Obs. or R.) Bestrid; p. p. Bestridden, Bestrid, Bestrode; p. pr. & vb. n. Bestriding.] [AS. bestr[=i]dan; pref. be- + str[=i]dan to stride.] 1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. --Shak. Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus. --Shak. 2. To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

Meaning of Bestride from wikipedia

- According to Nicolas Pioch's comments on the painting: "Only a child can so bestride the world with such ease, and only a childlike artist with a simple, naïve...
- Royal Mint and Hyde Park Barracks. There the proud arch Colossus like bestride Yon glittering streams and bound the strafing tide. — Prophetic observation...
- in what shape it comes, whether from the mouth of a king who s****s to bestride the people of his own nation and live by the fruit of their labor or from...
- vandalized remains of fasces on all four corners of its plinth. Fasces bestride Speaker's rostrum in the House chamber of the United States Capitol Above...
-  14. $9,716,567; $1=5FF Groves, Don (23 October 1995). "Home-grown pix bestride o'seas B.O.". Variety. p. 14. "International Box Office". Variety. 13 November...
- University Press. p. 165. ISBN 978-0-521-82093-6. Robert Ousterhout (2005) "'Bestride the Very Peak of Heaven': The Parthenon after Antiquity." In Neils (ed)...
- appearance, although she wears what seems to be intended for male attire, and bestrides her steed like the warriors of her train. She is attended by two handmaids...
- 1842 an accident in which an anonymous "gentleman from Dumfries-shire... bestride a velocipede... of ingenious design" knocked over a pedestrian in the Gorbals...
- C****ius in Julius Caesar (I, ii, 136–38) says of Caesar: Why man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus, and we petty men Walk under his huge...
- reported an accident in which an anonymous "gentleman from Dumfries-shire... bestride a velocipede... of ingenious design" knocked over a little girl in Glasgow...