behedge
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behedge
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From be- + hedge; compare Old English behegian and Dutch beheggen (“to put a hedge around, behedge”).
verb behedges · behedging · behedged
- To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge. [...] so that, though he had neither fixed flag not fixed father to cloud his thought and behedge his landscape, he could still, he used to say, share in the gush about ancestry.
- To determine the boundary or limit of; define. Having been spawned in a royal bed — perchance the same in which his great gran'dame Catherine was wont to receive her paramours — he becomes the most powerful of princes — haloed with "that divinity which doth behedge a king" — and all [...]
- To surround; beset; plague; hinder. Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.
- To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit. The remaining heirs are therefore not to be defeated by any of the restrictions that behedge the remedies available to the third-party beneficiary of a contract; [...]
