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Definition of Bestill
1. v. t. To make still.
Definition of Bestill
1. Verb. (transitive) To make quiet or still; calm; pacify. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bestill
1. to hush [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: hush
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestill
Literary usage of Bestill
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Few Notes on Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1853)
"Neither word, 'distill'd' or bestill'd, can be perfectly satisfactory; but it is
apparent that bestill'd was a misprint in the folio, 1623 (and from thence ..."
2. Seven Lectures on Shakespeare and Milton by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1856)
"... through several paragraphs treats "bestill'd" as the emendation in my folio
1632, observing that " the new reading is bestill'd " when in feet that ..."
3. A Dialogue of the Effectual Proverbs in the English Tongue Concerning Marriage by John Heywood (1906)
"bestill, " a good bestill is worth a groat " (68c), 6rs/01/ = a law term tor all
kinds of cattle : Fr., ..."
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