Besung
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 past participle of besing form-of, participle, past
- 1 Sung of; sung about; glorified or praised in song.
"Better to him seemed that victorious crown, / That midst the reverent silence of the town / He oft would set upon some singer's brow / Than was the conqueror's diadem, blest now / By lying priests, soon, bent and bloody, hung / Within the thorn by linnets well besung, / Who think but little of the corpse beneath, / Though ancient lands have trembled at his breath."
Example
More examples"Better to him seemed that victorious crown, / That midst the reverent silence of the town / He oft would set upon some singer's brow / Than was the conqueror's diadem, blest now / By lying priests, soon, bent and bloody, hung / Within the thorn by linnets well besung, / Who think but little of the corpse beneath, / Though ancient lands have trembled at his breath."
Etymology
From besing. Compare Dutch bezongen, German besungen.
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