beseeming

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Fr. convenable, apt, fit, meet for, beseeming, seemlie, &c.

From Caxton's Book of Curtesye by Furnivall, Frederick James

Wherefore, we conclude, that Christ did voluntarily, and of set purpose, choose sitting as the fittest and best beseeming gesture for that holy banquet.

From The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) by Gillespie, George

It was like a masquerade of rank and culture in the rags of misery, beseeming it as ill as an unsuitable part in a play.

From Footsteps of Fate by Couperus, Louis

You see how much those saints in the Old Testament were in this and certainly they had more excellent and beseeming thoughts of God than we.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Binning, Hugh

And blush not, lad, if I guess that to you we all owe this meeting; 'twere a bravery well beseeming your blood.

From Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir