Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete preterit corresponding to the past participle bestead.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imperative, past participle obsolete Beset; put in peril.
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Examples
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¶ That sta {n} d so hard bestad & fyght as ye may see.
The Assemble of Goddes Anonymous
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[_Contended_.? from B. 's bestad, _beset, oppressed_.]
The Rowley Poems Thomas Chatterton
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Ferre and fremd bestad: one from afar and among strangers.
A Bundle of Ballads Henry Morley 1858
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1 Thus ill-bested, and fearful more of shame ill-bested > hard-pressed, threatened (bested = placed); _or: _ ill - bestad: badly beset, badly hemmed in (SUS) 2 Than of the certain peril he stood in,
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser
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