befit

To be suitable to or for; to become, to be becoming in. Used IMG:content-1189.png:[blocks in formation] bě-fit-těd, pret. of BEFIT. Befitted as a pa. par. scarcely exists. and that it us befitted To bear our hearts in grief. Shakesp.: Hamlet, 1. 2. bě-fit-ting, pr. par. & a. [ΒΕΡΙΤ.] "An answer befitting the hostile me age and menace." Long fellow: Courtship of Miles Standish, iv. bě-fit-ting-lý, adv . In a befitting manner. †bě-flagged, pa . par . [Eng. prefix be , and flagged decorated with flags.] From an imaginary present, beflag. "Berlin is gaily beflagged, and the illuminations will be unusually brilliant" -Daily Telegraph, 23rd March, 1877. * bě-flā'ine, pa . par . & a . [BEFLAY.] be-flat-ter, v.t. [Eng. prefix be , and flatter .] To load with flattery. ( Webster .) bě-flat-tered, pa . par . & a. [BE FLATTER.] be-flat-ter-ing, pr . par . [BE FLATTER.] * bě-flā'y (pa. par. beflaine ), v.t. [Eng. prefix be, and flay.] To flay. "Out of his skin he was beflaine." Gower: Conf. Amant ., bk. vii. ( Richardson .)