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beseating

beseating is the present participle and gerund of beseat.

Meaning of beseat

Verb

beseat (third-person singular simple present beseats, present participle beseating, simple past and past participle beseated)

  1. (rare, reflexive) To make seated; to seat.
    • "Beseat yourselves, gentlemen, beseat yourselves," he insisted, pointing to a rough-hewn bench.1954, Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, translated by Stephen Becker, The Sacred Forest: Magic and Secret Rites in French Guinea, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, page 122

Questions about beseating

What is beseating the present participle and gerund of?
Beseating is the present participle and gerund of beseat.

Words near beseating in the dictionary

  1. bescumbered
  2. bescumbering
  3. bescumbers
  4. beseat
  5. beseated
  6. beseating
  7. beseats
  8. beseche
  9. Besecker
  10. Beseckers
  11. besee

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