disbecome

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Etymology edit

Verb edit

disbecome (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.