unbeseem

== English == === Etymology === From un- + beseem. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʌnbɪˈsiːm/ (General American) IPA(key): /ʌnbəˈsiːm/ Hyphenation: un‧be‧seem === Verb === unbeseem (third-person singular simple present unbeseems, present participle unbeseeming, simple past and past participle unbeseemed) (obsolete, transitive) To be unseemly or unsuitable for. 1594, Richard Hooker, “The First Booke. Concerning Lawes, and Their Severall Kindes in Generall.”, in Of the Lavvs of Ecclesiasticall Politie. Eyght Bookes, London: Printed at London by Iohn Windet, dwelling at the signe of the Crosse Keyes neere Powles Wharffe, and are there to be soulde, →OCLC; republished as Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie: Eight Bookes, London: Printed by Will[iam] Stansby, and are to be sold by Mat[thew] Lownes, 1617 [i.e. 1622], →OCLC, page 21: Law Rationall therefore, which men commonly vſe to call the Law of Nature, meaning thereby the Law which humane Nature knoweth it ſelfe in reaſon vniuerſally bound vnto, which alſo for that cauſe may be termed moſt fitly the law of Reaſon: this Law, I ſay, comprehendeth al thoſe things which men by the light of their naturall vnderſtanding euidently know, or at leaſtwiſe may know, to be beſeeming or vnbeſeeming, vertuous or vicious, good or euill for them to doe. ==== Antonyms ==== beseem ==== Derived terms ==== unbeseemingly