behedge
Verb
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Verb
behedge (behedges, present participle behedging; past and past participle behedged)
- (transitive) To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge.
- (transitive) To determine the boundary or limit of; define.
- 1905, William Cowper Brann, J.D. Shaw, Brann the iconoclast:
- Having been spawned in a royal bed — perchance the same in which his great gran'dame Catherine was wont to receive her paramours — he becomes the most powerful of princes — haloed with "that divinity which doth behedge a king" — and all [...]
- 1905, William Cowper Brann, J.D. Shaw, Brann the iconoclast:
- (transitive) To surround; beset; plague; hinder.
- (transitive) To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit.
- (surround with or as with a hedge) betine, border, enclose, hedge
- (determine the boundary or limit of) bound, define
- (surround; beset; plague; hinder) impede; See also Thesaurus:hinder
- (straiten; restrict; constrain; limit) curtail, restrain; See also Thesaurus:curb
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