Meaning of besides oneself | Babel Free

Definitions

Early Modern form of beside oneself.

Early, Modern, alt-of

Examples

“Feſtus ſayde with a lowde voyce: Paul / thou arte beſides thy ſilfe. Moche learnynge hath made the mad.”

“Notwithſtondinge it came ſo often vnto him / that what with laboure and whate with feare / the man was almoſt beſides him ſilfe / and then was he ſent to Oxfoꝛth to aſke counſell what was beſt to be done.”

A Disputation of Purgatory

“For I am under the same accusation with my Saviour—for they said, he is besides himself.”

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