behoufull

[BEHOOVEFUL.] * behough, * behouve, s . [BEHOOF.] bě-ho've, tbě-hô'ove, * bi-hô've, * byhô've ( Eng . ), bě-hûve, bě-hûfe ( Scotch ), v.t. & i. [A.S. behofian = to behove, to be fit, to have need of, to need, to require, (impers.) it behoveth, it concerns, it is needful or nece ary; Dan. behove, behöve; Sw. behöfva; Dut. behoeven to want, to need, to be nece ary; be hooven to behove, to be fit, suitable; Ger. behufen, behuben.) [BEHOOF.] A. Transitive: † 1. Personally: (a) In the active voice: To put under the nece ity, to impose upon one the nece ity (of doing something). +(b) In the pa ive voice: To be needful for, to be required, to be fitting, whether as regards nece ity, duty, or convenience. "Jul. No, madam; we have cull'd such nece aries As are behoved for our state to-morrow." Shakesp.: Romeo & Juliet , iv. 3. ( Some editions) 2. Impersonally : It is neeaful; it is fit; fitting, suitable. "He did so prudently temper his pa ions, as that none of them made him wanting in the offices of life, which it behoved or became him to perform."-Atter bury. B. Intransitive: To require, to need. "A kynge behoueth eke to flee The vice of prodigal i tee." Gower: Conf. Am., bk. vil bě-hō've-ful, *bě-hô ́ove-ful, *bě-hố ́ofull, *bě-hô'v-full, a. [Eng. behoof , be hoove behoof; and full .] 1. Needful. "And that they the same Gilde or fraternyte myght augumente and enlarge, as ofte and when it shuld some to theym nece arie and behoufull , English Gilds (Ear. Eng . Text Soc .), p. 310. 2. Advantageous; profitable. "Jul. No, madam: we have cull'd such nece aries As are behoveful for our state to-morrow." Shakesp. Rom. & Jul., iv. 3. ( Globe ed., .). bě-hō've-fül-ly, * bě-hôʻove-fül-ly, adv. [Eng. behoveful; -ly.] Advantageously; profitably. "Tell us of more weighty dislikes than these, and that may more behoove fully import the reformation." -Spenser: State of Ireland.