bestirre

Verb

bestir (third-person singular simple present bestirs, present participle bestirring, simple past and past participle bestirred)

1. (transitive) To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor.
   • Notwithstanding all the various temptations to bad temper, pride, greediness, adultery and so forth, the enemy really has but one temptation, and that is, to bestir the saints.1986, Watchman Nee, The Life that Wins, page 75
2. (reflexive) To make active; to rouse oneself.
   • Like the knocking at the door in Macbeth, or the cry of the watchman in the Tour de Nesle, they show that the horrible cæsura is over and the nightmares have fled away, because the day is breaking and the ordinary life of men is beginning to bestir itself among the streets.c. 1870, Robert Louis Stevenson, Nuits Blanches