Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To suit; fit; become.
- noun Something fitting or appropriate; suitable company.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Befitting associates or attendants.
- transitive verb obsolete To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To
suit ;fit ;become . - noun obsolete Something
fitting orappropriate ;suitable company ,associates , orattendants .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I.iv. 272, does not occur elsewhere, but 'besort,' sb., occurs in _O.
Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893
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As for Africa, sir, I flatter myself, Captain Truck, that you esteem me too highly to believe I am suited to consort or besort with the ill-formed and inedicated men who inhabit that wild country.
Homeward Bound or, the Chase James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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EI: I don’t know if this was maybejust me reading into Veronica Cartwright being in thisand the stuff at the end where they discover acouple things about Darryl, but is this supposed to besort of like “Eastwick: The Next Generation,” or is itdivorced from the book and the film more than that?
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