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t. [BESEECH.] bě-sět, * bě sette', * be-sete, * by-sette, *by-set-ten, by set (pret, beset , bi settide , by set ; pa. par. beset ), v.t. [Eng. prefix be , and set ; A.S. bisettan = to set near, to place (from be , and sett an = to cover, to sit, to set; Sw. besätta ; Dan. besætte; Dut. bezetten = to occupy, to take, to invest, garrison, border, or edge; N. H. Ger. besetzen ; O. H. Ger. bisazjan .] [SET.] *I. To set, to set on, or to. 1. More lit.: To place, to put, to station, to fix, to appoint, to employ, to bestow. "Therefore the love of everything that is not beset in God."-Chaucer: The Parson's Tale. 2. More fig . (chiefly from O. H. Ger. bisazjan =.. to serve a table): (1) To cause to serve; to serve (as a table). ( Chaucer .) In Ger. bescheinen.] To shine upon; to give light or brightne to; to enlighten, to illuminate. "When the sun is set, it beskineth not the world."Golden Boke, ch. 36. (Richardson.)