Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Distracted; mad: as, “I am not bestraught,”
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Out of one's senses; distracted; mad.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete
Distracted ;mad .
Etymologies
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From be- + straught (“stretched”), modelled after distraught, forstraught, etc.
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Examples
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Edwardes wife, beeyng in Sanctuarie, was bestraught of witte and sences, sounyng and falling doune to the grounde as dedde, the Quéene after reuiued, knéeled doune, and cal - led on God, to take vengaunce on this murtherer.
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For, Belford, (’tis a folly to deny it,) I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught.
Clarissa Harlowe 2006
minerva commented on the word bestraught
For, Belford ('tis a folly to deny it), I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught.
Lovelace to Belford, Clarissa by Samuel Richardson
December 11, 2007