Meaning of besing | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To sing of or sing about; celebrate in song or poetry; sing the praises of; praise; laud.
   transitive
2. To sing to.
   transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“I have⟳ read⟳ Stories, (I fear, too true ones;) how young Lords, like⟳ you, Have⟳ thus besung mean⟳ Windows, rhymed their Sufferings Ev'n to th' Abuse of Things Divine, set⟳ up Plain Girls, like⟳ me, the Idols of their Worship⟳, Then left them […]”

“Let⟳ him dwindle into a modish balladmonger; let⟳ him worship⟳ and besing the idols of the time, and the time will not fail⟳ to reward⟳ him.”

“And in the meanwhile, how can a poet better employ⟳ himself (provided he does not confine his subject-matter to the Greeks, who have⟳ already besung themselves far better than we can sing⟳ them, and to the Romans, who were besung by our Elizabethan poets better than they ever will be sung again), [...]”

“[…] Blanckenburg pointed out that one of the differences between the epic and the novel was that the classic epic was a "heroic poem" besinging the "public acts and events", the "actions of the citizen"; […]”

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