What is "bested"

Usage examples of "bested".

Garner bested him by two or three inches in height, but their shoulders were of equal width and, in profile, their noses had the same straight slope and sharp tip and the same arrogantly flared nostrils.

Many of the other warriors sparred with him regularly and flourished under his instruction, but none had bested the erstwhile Warmonger yet.

It was said Adams so bitterly resented that Jefferson had bested him in the election that he refused to come to his aid, and that if the truth were known he preferred Burr.

Chateau Montelena chardonnay bested the top French white burgundies at the famous 1976 Paris tasting.

In these wordless exchanges of repartee with his officers, Herbert Cryer was never bested.

Bested in both physical and political contests, they refused to elect deputies to the Estates at all.

The Vicomte de Beauharnais spoke of the necessity for absolute equality of criminal sentencing and equal admission of all citizens to both civil and military office, only to find himself bested by the Marquis de Blacon, who boasted that the Estates of Dauphine, that notoriously vanguard body, had already instituted such a regime.

But it is seldom acknowledged that he was bested in battle and executed by an amazonian queen, ruler of the Massagetae, a Scythian people.

For three days we battled, his arts against mine, and when done, he had bested me.

The crowd shouted its enthusiastic approval of the contest, for never had a group of fighters bested a harulth without losing at least five times as many men.

Had I not bested, then befriended Rhuagh, you would never have survived in the mines of Mac Mordain Cadal.

Buinne has evaded justice for his crimes long enough, and the king must see him bested and betteredand not only the king: The people, too, must behold the power of a bard of the Ceile De.

This, too, unnerved Catti-brie, because it wasn't the brash cockiness of an exuberant youngster, but the cool air of superiority of one who had seen a thousand fights and had never been bested.

It must have gone much against the grain with Madog ap Meredith to be bested by a handful of foresters and cottars, he may well want his revenge when he feels it safe to bid for it.

Thus hard bested, and at length reduced to mendicancy, he made his way, so as least discomfortably he might, to Rome, being minded to see whether Titus would remember him: and there, learning that Titus lived, and was much affected by all the Romans, and having found out his house, he took his stand in front of it, and watched until Titus came by.