Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sit about; besiege.
- To sit upon.
- To sit properly upon, as clothes; suit; become.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To suit; to fit; to become.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive, obsolete To sit
around ; sitabout ;besiege . - verb transitive, obsolete To sit upon.
- verb transitive, obsolete To sit
properly upon, as clothes; tosuit ;become .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Om dit te kan doen moet die staat die mag hê om op verskeie maniere van grond besit te kan neem, insluitende deur regmatige onteiening.
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Indeed my passion for him is double that he feeleth for me; my tongue may not describe my yearning for him; and were it not for the extravagant wilfulness of his words and the wanderings of his wit, my father had not cut off from him favours that besit, nor had decreed unto him exclusion and prohibition as fit.
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Quoth I, O thou Ifrit, it would besit thee to pardon me even as the Envied pardoned the
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“O my poor fellow! bread and cheese besit thee not; wish for some thing good.”
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Wazir,58 who speaketh against my husband words that besit him not.
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Aziz made a sign to him and he replied, I have everything thou canst desire and especially I have goods that besit none but
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Die blote feit dat ek in besit is en aangehaal het uit Rubin se publikasie sou onder Apartheid beteken het dat ek self in die tronk sou beland het.
SPEECH BY ANNELIZ� VAN WYK DURING THE STATE OF THE NATION DEBATE 2004
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Maar die werksaamhede van die Waarheids - en Versoeningskommissie het vir ons bewys, meer as wat ons ooit kon gedink het, dat die waarheid helende krag besit.
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS 1997
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Ons almal weet dat in die vorige bestel, in die jare van apartheid en blanke oorheersing, het die Afrikaners die politieke mag besit en op alle terreine was hulle besonderd bevoorreg.
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Die NP van Hermanus is reeds in besit van 'n beedigde verklaring van mnr Jacobus Gardiner,' n sogenaamde kandidaat van die ANC waarin hy ontken dat hy ooit geraadpleeg was of ingestem het om 'n kandidaat vir die ANC te wees.' n Tweede kandidaat van die ANC maak dieselfde bewering en het onderneem om ook 'n beedigde verklaring van die NP te voorsien.
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