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Behedge
Definitions
- 1 To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge. transitive
"[...] so that, though he had neither fixed flag not fixed father to cloud his thought and behedge his landscape, he could still, he used to say, share in the gush about ancestry."
- 2 To determine the boundary or limit of; define. transitive
"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 [...]"
- 3 To surround; beset; plague; hinder. transitive
"Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions."
- 4 To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit. transitive
"The remaining heirs are therefore not to be defeated by any of the restrictions that behedge the remedies available to the third-party beneficiary of a contract; [...]"
Etymology
From be- + hedge; compare Old English behegian and Dutch beheggen (“to put a hedge around, behedge”).
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