Meanings
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1
verb
to be suitable or appropriate for someone or something; to befit
A calm reply would better beseem the dignity of the office.
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2
verb
to appear or look in a specified way, usually with well or ill; archaic
The old stone inn beseemed well in the mountain landscape.
Thesaurus
Etymology
From Middle English bisemen, formed with the intensifying prefix be- and seem. The older verb seem was influenced by Old Norse sœma, 'to conform or befit,' which explains the appropriateness sense that survives in literary beseem.