Definitions
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- verb transitive To
hedge about;surround with or as with a hedge. - verb transitive To
determine theboundary orlimit of;define . - verb transitive To
surround ;beset ;plague ;hinder . - verb transitive To
straiten ;restrict ;constrain ;limit .
Etymologies
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From Middle English *biheggen, *biheien, *beheȝen, from Old English behegian ("to hedge around"), equivalent to be- + hedge. Cognate with Dutch beheggen ("to put a hedge around, behedge").
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Examples
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It is ever making itself an obtuse triangle before the god of its idolatry -- its knees and nose on the earth, its tail-feathers in the air; but we had yet to learn that it considered "that divinity which doth behedge a king" capable of sanctifying a woman's shame, transforming a foul leman into an angel of light!
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Having been spawned in a royal bed -- perchance the same in which his great gran'dame Catherine was wont to receive her paramours -- he becomes the most powerful of princes -- haloed with "that divinity which doth behedge a king" -- and all the earth rejoices to do him honor.
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