Crossword clues for behaved
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Behave \Be*have"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Behaved; p. pr. & vb. n. Behaving.] [AS. behabban to surround, restrain, detain (akin to G. gehaben (obs.) to have, sich gehaben to behave or carry one's self); pref. be- + habban to have. See Have, v. t. ]
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To manage or govern in point of behavior; to discipline; to handle; to restrain. [Obs.]
He did behave his anger ere 't was spent.
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To carry; to conduct; to comport; to manage; to bear; -- used reflexively.
Those that behaved themselves manfully.
--2 Macc. ii. 21.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: behave)
Usage examples of "behaved".
They will find no Pelton, but they will find three women who will swear that, yes, you and your men demanded admittance last night, whereupon you behaved with drunken debauchery, fighting amongst yourselves.
Murray Undeceived and Avenged Tontine had what is called tact and common sense, and thinking these qualities were required in our economy she behaved with great delicacy, not going to bed before receiving my letters, and never coming into my room except in a proper dress, and all this pleased me.
After supper I sent out Le Duc and the other servant, and as soon as I was alone with my too lovely housekeeper, who had behaved at table like a woman of the world, I begged her to tell me her history.
While not all the same men, this group has behaved toward you almost exactly as the first.
Had I known what the retrieving machines could do, I suspect I would have behaved differently.
I have indeed behaved as a duke of old, as a decider of life and death.
These people were strangers, and yet they behaved toward her as if she mattered.
It came up at odd times, when Dio tried to explain the odd ways in which the Senator behaved toward her, or when she asked questions and was told to be quiet.
I did not forget the sister of my charming Lucrezia, and to make her change her hostile attitude towards me I addressed to her so many pretty compliments, and behaved in such a friendly manner, that she was compelled to forgive the fall of the bed.
She behaved in a respectable way, and remained with him until his death.
He behaved in the same manner on the day following, and until I saw Lawrence for the last time on the morning of the 31st October.
I did not think of going back, but behaved as if I had been in my own house.
If he had behaved well he might have become a rich man, but he got involved in some conspiracy and had to fly, and afterwards experienced many vicissitudes of fortune.
My vanity made me conclude at once that she behaved thus only to increase my desire of knowing her, and to give me plenty of time to examine her side-face and her figure, the proportions of which were not concealed by her simple attire.
My Rosalie behaved herself at supper like the mistress of a house accustomed to the best society.