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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of beseem.

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Examples

  • When dinner was ended, the Abbot bestowed honorable garments on him, such as beseemed his degree and merit, and putting good store of money in his purse, as also giving him a good horse to ride on, left it at his owne free election, whether he would stay there still with him, or depart at his pleasure.

    The Decameron 2004

  • She felt that, here in Norway, she had no private wealth of her own such as beseemed a queen, whereas there were her great estates in Wendland and Denmark, from which large revenues were due.

    Olaf the Glorious A Story of the Viking Age Robert Leighton

  • Philadelphia, and Harrisburg-amid the prayers and blessings and acclamations of an enthusiastic and patriotic people -- he uttered words of wise conciliation and firm moderation such as beseemed the high functions and tremendous responsibilities to which the voice of that liberty -- and-union-loving people had called him, and this too, with a full knowledge, when he made the Philadelphia speech, that the enemies of the Republic had already planned to assassinate him before he could reach Washington.

    The Great Conspiracy, Complete John Alexander Logan 1856

  • Philadelphia, and Harrisburg-amid the prayers and blessings and acclamations of an enthusiastic and patriotic people -- he uttered words of wise conciliation and firm moderation such as beseemed the high functions and tremendous responsibilities to which the voice of that liberty -- and-union-loving people had called him, and this too, with a full knowledge, when he made the Philadelphia speech, that the enemies of the Republic had already planned to assassinate him before he could reach Washington.

    The Great Conspiracy, Volume 2 John Alexander Logan 1856

  • Then, letting clothe her in apparel such as beseemed her quality, to the exceeding joyance of as many as were there and of all other his vassals who heard the news, he held high festival, not only all that day, but sundry others, and from that day forth still honoured her as his bride and his wife and loved and tendered her over all. "

    The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio 1344

  • He does not pray for life, for such a petition would have ill beseemed a hero.

    Archive 2010-03-01 Hal Duncan 2010

  • He does not pray for life, for such a petition would have ill beseemed a hero.

    On the Sublime Hal Duncan 2010

  • In the meantime Dame Elspeth assisted to disembarrass the damsel whom she destined for her future daughter-inlaw, of her hood, mantle, and the rest of her riding gear, giving her to appear as beseemed the buxom daughter of the wealthy Miller, gay and goodly, in a white kirtle, the seams of which were embroidered with green silken lace or fringe, entwined with some silver thread.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Atli said, “Ill it beseemed to thee to do this, though somewhat of wrong was between us; for thou wert wedded to me by the rede of thy kin, and dower paid I for thee; yea, thirty goodly knights, and seemly maidens, and many men besides; and yet wert thou not content, but if thou should rule over the lands King Budli owned: and thy mother-inlaw full oft thou lettest sit a-weeping.”

    The Story of the Volsungs 2008

  • Madame de Granville seemed to have a horror of light and cheerful colors; perhaps, too, she imagined that brown and purple beseemed the dignity of a magistrate.

    A Second Home 2007

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