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Bestung vs Besung - What's the difference?

bestung | besung |

As adjectives the difference between bestung and besung

is that bestung is having been stung while besung is sung of; sung about; praised or glorified in song.

As a verb besung is

past participle of lang=en.

bestung

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (archaic) Having been stung.
    • 1830: William Taylor, Historic Survey of German Poetry: Interspersed with Various Translations , page 383:
  • :* No sooner was she out of hearing, And not expos'd to take alarm, Than from my restless couch I sprung, As if by swarming wasps bestung .
    • 1862: Václav Vratislav, Adventures of Baron Wenceslas Wratislaw: what he saw in Constantinople, in his captivity , page 129:
  • :* After all, however, it was lucky for us that it was so, for the skin over the whole of our bodies was so bestung that we no longer felt the biting of lice or bugs, although it was impossible to get used to the stinging of those other insects.
    • 1872: Sir , How I Found Livingstone: Travels, Adventures and Discoveries in Central Africa , page 595:
  • :* We raced madly for about half a mile, behaving in as wild a manner as the poor bestung animals.
    • 1904: William Everett, The Italian Poets Since Dante , page 181:
  • :*...in homicidal feud, By slight punctilio urged, a jealous smart Against his friend be to deal a blow bestung ,—
    • 1935: Alfred Emanuel Smith, New Outlook , page 167:
  • :* From the day of his landing mosquitoes and black flies marked the Spectator for their own, and before his week at Tijuca was over he was so bestung that his best friend might have been forgiven for passing him upon the street.

    • besung

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Sung of; sung about; praised or glorified in song.
  • * 1871 , William Morris, The earthly paradise :
    • That midst the reverent silence of the town He oft would set upon some singer's brow Than was the conqueror's diadem, blest now By lying priests, soon, bent and bloody, hung Within the thorn by linnets well besung , [...]
  • * 1897 , University of Virginia, The Virginia spectator :
    • O fair midspring, besung so oft and oft, How can I praise thy loveliness enow?

    Verb

    (head)