Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make quiet or still.
  • [In the following passage uncertain:
  • This is the reading of the folios; the quartos and modern editions read distilled.]

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To make still.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To make quiet or still; calm; pacify.

Etymologies

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From be- +‎ still.

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Examples

  • You've put this so well while using Pop Culture references - bestill my heart! that I wanted to stumble this and lo and behold my damned IT dept has uninstalled my tool bar - gasp!

    The Amazing Survivor Race Challenge: Parenting Edition 2009

  • Could be a liver thing as he used to bestill is? a heavy drinker.

    Think Progress » Miss America, hardball-style. 2007

  • Not because I'm so in love with the Twilight Saga, that it would bestill my unfortunately beating heart to see it on screen as long as possible,

    Mania News Feed 2010

  • Not because I'm so in love with the Twilight Saga, that it would bestill my unfortunately beating heart to see it on screen as long as possible,

    Mania News Feed Jarrod Sarafin 2010

  • To close today, at 18: 00 GMT we have none other than Russell Brand (bestill the thumping hearts and heaving bosoms of many a lass in the SHOWstudio. com and i-D offices), but that's not to say we're slouching in-between, with Panos Yiapanis all scheduled this afternoon.

    SHOWstudio 2009

  • Oh, bestill my heart - that half of moment is mom slays me.

    Magpie Musing 2009

  • You’ve put this so well (while using Pop Culture references – bestill my heart!) that I wanted to stumble this and lo and behold my damned IT dept has uninstalled my tool bar – gasp!

    The Amazing Survivor Race Challenge: Parenting Edition | Her Bad Mother 2009

  • 1968 "Funny Girl," bestill my heart, starring Barbra Streisand.

    CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2001 2001

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