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Bestridden

Bestride \Be*stride"\, v. t. [imp. Bestrode, (Obs. or R.) Bestrid; p. p. Bestridden, Bestrid, Bestrode; p. pr. & vb. n. Bestriding.] [AS. bestr[=i]dan; pref. be- + str[=i]dan to stride.]

  1. To stand or sit with anything between the legs, or with the legs astride; to stand over

    That horse that thou so often hast bestrid.
    --Shak.

    Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus.
    --Shak.

  2. To step over; to stride over or across; as, to bestride a threshold.

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bestridden

vb. (past participle of bestride English)

WordNet
bestride

  1. v. get on the back of; "mount a horse" [syn: hop on, mount, mount up, get on, jump on, climb on] [ant: hop out]

  2. [also: bestrode, bestridden, bestrid]

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Usage examples of "bestridden".

Sure, such a horse for slipping from under one was never bestridden by man.

But the spirit of Romance and Christendom, the spirit which is in every lover, the spirit which has bestridden the earth with European adventure, is quite opposite.

She laughed with him, and they walked along the L bestridden avenue, exhilarated by their escape from murder and suicide in that cellar, toward the nearest cross town track, which they meant to take home to their hotel.

Her dull eyes widened at sight of the tall black horse bestridden by the finely-clad man in the macabre mask.

She laughed with him, and they walked along the L bestridden avenue, exhilarated by their escape from murder and suicide in that cellar, toward the nearest cross town track, which they meant to take home to their hotel.