Hypertext Webster Gateway: "busied"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Busy \Bus"y\ (b[i^]z"z[y^]), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Busied}
(b[i^]z"z[i^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Busying}.] [AS. bysgian.]
To make or keep busy; to employ; to engage or keep engaged;
to occupy; as, to busy one's self with books.
Be it thy course to busy giddy minds With foreign
quarrels. --Shak.
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