Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
busy .
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Examples
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Joseph Hall the besy Elvis ever without a question !
'America's Got Talent' recap: Waiting for the final five | EW.com 2008
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But nowe pryde, covetyse and envye han so enflawmed the hertes of lordes of the world, that thei are more besy for to disherite here neyghbores, more than for to chalenge or to conquere here righte heritage before seyd.
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And thanne thei asked him, whi he was so proud and so fierce and so besy, for to putten alle the world undre his subieccioun, righte as thou were
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But nowe pryde, covetyse and envye han so enflawmed the hertes of lordes of the world, that thei are more besy for to disherite here neyghbores, more than for to chalenge or to conquere here righte heritage before seyd.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And thanne thei asked him, whi he was so proud and so fierce and so besy, for to putten alle the world undre his subieccioun, righte as thou were
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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His _descant_ is besy, [15] it is without a _mene_,
Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900
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Cast þe cawse oñ my copy/rude/& bar {e} of eloquence, which {e} to d {ra} we out [I] haue do my besy diligence, redily to reforme hit/by resoñ and bettur sentence.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Saynt Austyne amonessheth w_i_t_h_ besy cure, howe me_n_ att table shulde the_m_ assure
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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To be of langage besy & owtrage; ffor the wyse sayd in his sentence
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Cast þe cawse oñ my copy/rude/& bar {e} of eloquence, 1240 which {e} to drawe out [I] haue do my besy diligence, redily to reforme hit/by resoñ and bettur sentence.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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