Hypertext Webster Gateway: "beseeming"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Beseeming \Be*seem"ing\, n.
1. Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.]
I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming.
--Shak.
2. Comeliness. --Baret.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Beseeming \Be*seem"ing\, a.
Becoming; suitable. [Archaic] -- {Be*seem"ing*ly}, adv. --
{Be*seem"ing*ness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Beseem \Be*seem"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beseemed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Beseeming}.] [Pref. be- + seem.]
Literally: To appear or seem (well, ill, best, etc.) for
(one) to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper
for, or worthy of; to become; to befit.
A duty well beseeming the preachers. --Clarendon.
What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our
prayers to God ? --Hocker.
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