What is "behooves"

Usage examples of "behooves".

And how I priz'd the lesson, it behooves, That, long as life endures, my tongue should speak, What of my fate thou tell'st, that write I down: And with another text to comment on For her I keep it, the celestial dame, Who will know all, if I to her arrive.

Four handmaids of the day Had finish'd now their office, and the fifth Was at the chariot-beam, directing still Its balmy point aloof, when thus my guide: "Methinks, it well behooves us to the brink Bend the right shoulder' circuiting the mount, As we have ever us'd.

But first behooves thee of this water drink, Or ere that longing be allay'd.

Since we have at the moment only one potential enemy and several thousand potential allies, and since we are not adverse to assistance, it behooves us to deal cautiously with you.

It behooves you, therefore, to exhort her to repentance, and to confession, as a proof and consequence thereof.

It ill behooves you to make cheap wisecracks at persons appointed by the Company to supervise your training and welfare.

It behooves us to treat his mother - `I never trusted that hairy bastard.