OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 15356

behove

/bɪˈhəʊv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
concernir • corresponder • incumbir
To befit, to suit.
It behoves every man, who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; it behoves him too, in his own case, to give no example of conc…
[W]here therefore public diversions are tolerated, it behoves persons of distinction, with their power and example, to preside over them in such a manner as to check any thing that…
incumbir
To be necessary for (someone).
Accordingly, Mr. Stryver inaugurated the Long Vacation with a formal proposal to take Miss Manette to Vauxhall Gardens; that failing, to Ranelagh; that unaccountably failing too, i…
📚 verb • entry_id 60311

byhove

/bɪˈhəʊv/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
convenir
To suit; to befit.
1803, Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Benjamin Rush April 21. It behoves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others; or the…
No fire-faced prophet brought me word Which way behoved me go.
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