betossed

comparative more betossed · superlative most betossed

1. poetictossed around; turbulent

   Once done, his soul was so betossed, It found no more the force it lost.

   1898, Thomas Hardy, The Two Men

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   What ſaid my man, when my betoſſed ſoule / Did not attend him as we rode?

   c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]