Meanings
- not comparablerareSynonym of seated.
On the north side of the Square is a bronze statue of Charles James FOX (be-toga'd and beseated) by Sir Richard WESTMACOTT. It was erected here in 1816, ten years after Fox's death.
1985, Peter Gibson, The Capital Companion: A Street-by-Street Guide to London and Its Inhabitants, Exeter, Devon: Webb & Bower, →ISBN, page 472 more examples
I'd jest ben puttin' Ojmelus and Gad, and Axy and Vine, to bed in the trundle-bed, and was beseated readin' in Cecely, (a novil belongin' to a naber of ourn,) when father came in and says he to me, says he, "Milly," — says I, "Sir!" "Come up chomber," says he, "I want to see ye a minnit."
1868, Mrs. F[rances] M[iriam] Whitcher, chapter I, in Widow Spriggins, Mary Elmer, and Other Sketches, New York, N.Y.: Geo. W. Carlton & Co., Publishers, page 42It is not simply the view of selected dissidents that libraries are such difficult, dreary places. The stereotype is so pervasive that national television advertisements use libraries as the most unlikely, unimagineable location to posit an automobile, and the most likely situation to have a sedate, bespectacled, beseated female recommending gentle (why not effective? or dynamic?) laxatives.
1978, Virginia Baeckler, PR for Pennies: Low-Cost Library Public Relations, Hopewell, N.J.: Sources, page 2Synonyms: seated
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of beseat
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveSynonym of seated.
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