The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: beseem)
Usage examples of "beseemed".
He was accompanied by two princes of the house of Navarre, who were received with not only those honours which beseemed their rank, but also as brothers-in-law to whom the, duke was eager to show in what spirit he was contracting this alliance.
His reuerend haires and holy grauitieThe knight much honord, as beseemed well,And gently askt, where all the people bee,Which in that stately building wont to dwell.
It lately so befell,That Satyran a girdle did vptake,Well knowne to appertaine to Florimell,Which for her sake he wore, as him beseemed well.
Her younger sister, that Speranza hight,Was clad in blew, that her beseemed well.
Tho to him yode,And him saluting, as beseemed best,Gan first inquire of tydings farre abrode.
At length they came, whereas a troupe of KnightsThey saw together skirmishing, as seemed:Sixe they were all, all full of fell despight,But foure of them the battell best beseemed,That which of them was best, mote not be deemed.
Howbeit, I recovered myself at once, and pointed out to her that it scarce beseemed her to enter a stranger's house for the first time in such attire.
Thus it came to the turn of Ursula Tetzel and she, looking round on Junker Henning or ever she spoke, said, with a proud curl of her red lips, that she could give no opinion, inasmuch as she only knew what beseemed young maids of noble birth.
The furniture was such as beseemed a well-to-do artisan--walnut-wood chairs with straw seats, a small walnut-wood dining table, a work table, some colored prints in black wooden frames, short muslin curtains to the windows, the floor well polished and shining with cleanliness, not a speck of dust anywhere, but all cold and dingy, like a picture by Terburg in every particular, even to the gray tone given by a wall paper once blue and now faded to gray.
This hideous specimen of decaying vice, trotting in red heels--for Valerie dressed the man as beseemed his income, his cross, and his appointment--horrified Crevel, who could not meet the colorless eyes of the Government clerk.
With Cousin Betty as the housekeeper, this compound household could bear all these charges, and yet keep up a good appearance, as beseemed a pleader of note.
And therewithal beseemed them that there came a man, and four angels from heaven, clothed in likeness of a bishop, and had a cross in his hand.
Their language well beseemed their proportions, "sounding from them as it were a great voice in a vault or cave, as an ecco.