disbecome
English
editEtymology
editVerb
editdisbecome (third-person singular simple present disbecomes, present participle disbecoming, simple past disbecame, past participle disbecome)
- (obsolete, transitive) To misbecome; to fail to suit; to be unfitting.
- 1619, Philip Massinger, Nathan Field, The Fatal Dowry:
- be careful
That your compassion of my age, nor his,
Move you to any thing that may disbecome
The place on which you sit
References
edit- “disbecome”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.