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Meanings of beseem in English

Portuguese
adequar-se
Spanish
ser propio de

Accord or comport with.

        adequar-se
        Usage of beseem in English
        1
        She clad her and her handmaids with care, as did beseem them.
        The Nibelungenlied
        2
        How would it beseem us to appear in the streets without a slave?
        The Emperor — Volume 05
        3
        This would still beseem all doughty knights at high festal tides.
        The Nibelungenlied
        4
        Ye should give it over, 'twould beseem you knights far better.
        The Nibelungenlied
        5
        Sir, she said, It will not beseem me to wear a king's garment.
        Le Morte d'Arthur: Volume 1
        6
        To the twain she said, that weeping did beseem her and naught else better.
        The Nibelungenlied
        7
        Two miles!-andnow I mind me, I have not the accoutrements that beseem me.
        The Last of the Barons — Volume 01
        8
        Such miserable servility may beseem a courtier, but it ill becomes our princely station.
        Prince Eugene and His Times
        9
        Her floating robes, her holly crown, beseem her queenly charms.'
        Dynevor Terrace; Or, The Clue of Life — Volume 1
        10
        Is it not a valiant apparel, as might almost beseem one who rode a-courting?
        The Black Douglas
        11
        Maids should never touch matters which do not beseem them!
        Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 07
        12
        It would ill beseem me to complain thereof, therefore, but it might have been fresher.
        A King's Comrade: A Story of Old Hereford
        13
        Would it beseem an honest and shamefaced maid if I called him back to me?
        Margery (Gred): A Tale Of Old Nuremberg — Volume 04
        14
        How would it beseem your rank to join these who shame their sex--No, no!
        In the Fire of the Forge: A Romance of Old Nuremberg — Volume 03
        15
        Be advised of me and hold him still as friend; far better will this beseem us.
        The Nibelungenlied
        16
        The things of the earth ill beseem you.
        Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá'u'lláh
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