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To see; to look; to mind. [Obs.] Wyclif.

To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton.

One who beseeches.

Entreating urgently; imploring; as, a beseeching look. -- Be*seech"ing*ly, adv. -- Be*seech"ing*ness, n.

The act of beseeching or entreating earnestly. [R.] Goodwin.

To beseech. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God Hocker.

Appearance; look; garb. [Obs.] I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak.

Fit; suitable; becoming. [Archaic] In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone.

Seen; appearing. [Obs. or Archaic]

To suit ill.

To be unbecoming or unsuitable to; to misbecome.

Unbecoming; not befitting. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*seem"ing*ness, n.

by abbreviation; as, a general's aid. Aid prayer (Law), a proceeding by which a defendant beseeches and claims assistance from some one who has a further or more permanent interest in the matter in suit. -- To pray in aid, to beseech and claim such assistance.

To happen to. I beseech your grace that I may know The worst that may befall me. Shak.

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech. I do beg your good will in this case. Shak. [Joseph] begged the body of Jesus. Matt. xxvii. 58.

of Beseech.

of Besee. [Obs.] Chaucer. Evil biseye, ill looking. [Obs.]

Crying earnestly, beseeching clamorousky. "Clamant children." Thomson.

he honest, heart-felt enjoyment of common life. W. Irving. This fact was infamous And ill beseeming any common man, Much more a knight, a captain and a leader. Shak. Above the vulgar flight of common souls. A. Murpphy.