Bestem vs Beseem - What's the difference?
bestem | beseem |
To stem completely; stem all about; hinder.
*1894 , Gaius Valerius Catullus, The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus :
(archaic, transitive and intransitive) To appear, seem, look (with some qualifying word).
(archaic, transitive and intransitive) To be appropriate or creditable (without qualifying word).
* Clarendon
* Hooker
:* 1819': “Lady,” said Cedric, “this '''beseems not; were further pledge necessary, I myself, offended, and justly offended, as I am, would yet gage my honour for the honour of Ivanhoe.” —
As verbs the difference between bestem and beseem
is that bestem is to stem completely; stem all about; hinder while beseem is (archaic|transitive and intransitive) to appear, seem, look (with some qualifying word).bestem
English
Verb
(bestemm)- Whence she might overglance the boundless boiling of billows, Then she would rush to bestem the salt-plain's quivering wavelet And from her ankles bare the dainty garment uplifting, Spake she these words [...]
beseem
English
Verb
(en verb)- This inn beseems well for a weary traveller.
- a duty well beseeming the preachers
- What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God?