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   The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition.  2000.
 
beseem
 
SYLLABICATION:be·seem
PRONUNCIATION:  b-sm
TRANSITIVE VERB:Inflected forms: be·seemed, be·seem·ing, be·seems
Archaic To be appropriate for; befit.
ETYMOLOGY:Middle English bisemen : bi-, be- + semen, to seem; see seem.
 
 
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