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Posted By: Amos
23-Feb-11 - 10:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Subject: RE: BS: The Mother of all BS threads
Little Hawk's world is umbeset with imaginary friends.
Forms: α. ME– umbeset, ME vmbesette, ME–15 -set(t, wmbeset, 15 -sett, 15 ombeset(t; ME umbisett(e, ME vmbi-, ME vmbysett. β. ME vnbesette, 15–16 -set, 15 unbeset, wnbesett.... (Show More)
Etymology: See umbe- prefixand beset v., and compare umb- prefixand umset v.So Middle Dutch omme-, ombesetp.p., Middle Danish ombesatp.p.... (Show More)
Obs. In later use Sc.
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trans. To surround, encompass, beset.α.
a1300 Cursor Mundi 19775 Petre‥to þis licam com þat lai, Wit pouer widus vm-bi-sett.
a1400 (1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7179 Þai vmbisett þat tun a-bute.
c1475 (1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 48 Þe auter is vmbeset wiþ stonis.
1487 (1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 706 He till the hous went hastely, And vmbeset [1489 Adv. wmbeset] it all about.
1487 (1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vi. 535 The kyng wes in gret Iuperdy, That wes on athir syde vmbeset With fayis.
1488 (1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) v. l. 168 At syndry furdis the gait thai wmbeset.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xi. xiv. 22 Quhou huge dolfnes, and schamful cowardice, Hes ombeset ȝour myndis apon sik wys.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 3, With Iacinth fine, and Topazion sa fair,‥Was vmbeset his bodye ouir all quhair.
1587 Reg. Privy Counc. Scot. IV. 162 Thai‥umbesettis thair hie wayes in thair ganging and cuming fra thair parroche kirk.
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c1440 Gesta Rom. (Add. MS.) lxv. 281 Whan the Steward was thus vnbesette with thise iij. bestes, he was right sory.
c1600 Diurnal of Remarkable Occurrents (1833) 168 Certane personis‥quha was werry bent to haue vnbesett him in the waij betuix Edinburgh and Berwick.
c1600 Hist. James VI (1804) 112 Thairfoir Lord Claud Hamiltoun unbeset the way with sum chosen men.
1624 in Abbotsford Club Misc. 144 Thomas Logie‥meitting ane number of cattis‥quhilk vnbesett him, the said Thomas saw ȝour face vpoun ane of [the] cattis.