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besing

besing verb: to sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.

Verb

besing (third-person singular simple present besings, present participle besinging, simple past besang, past participle besung)

  1. (transitive) To sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.
    • I have read Stories, (I fear, too true ones;) how young Lords, like you, Have thus besung mean Windows, rhymed their Sufferings Ev'n to th' Abuse of Things Divine, set up Plain Girls, like me, the Idols of their Worship, Then left them […]1728, William Shakespeare, Mr. Theobald (Lewis), John Fletcher, Double falshood
    • Let him dwindle into a modish balladmonger; let him worship and besing the idols of the time, and the time will not fail to reward him.1854, Thomas Carlyle, Burns
  2. (transitive) To sing to.

Forms of besing

third-person singular presentbesings
present participlebesinging
pastbesang
past participlebesung

Origin of besing

From Middle English besingen, from Old English besingan (“to sing of, bewail, sing charms, enchant”), from Proto-West Germanic *bisingwan (“to sing about”), equivalent to be- (“of, about”) + sing. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besjunge (“to sing about”), West Frisian besjonge (“to sing about, praise”), Dutch bezingen (“to sing of, chant”), German besingen (“to sing of, sing the praises of”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål besynge (“to sing of”), Swedish besjunga (“to sing of”).

Words formed from besing

Questions about besing

What does besing mean?
Besing means to sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.
What part of speech is besing?
Besing is a verb.
What is the past tense of besing?
The past tense of besing is besang.

Words near besing in the dictionary

  1. besilate
  2. besilates
  3. besilesomab
  4. besilked
  5. besilver
  6. besing
  7. besinge
  8. besingeing
  9. besinging
  10. besings
  11. besipirdine

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