v. [f. BE- 4 + SING v.] trans. a. To sing (into some state). b. To sing about (a person, etc.); to celebrate in song; to sing to. Hence Besung ppl. a.

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1566.  Drant, Horace Sat., X. E iv b. If the plaintife Poet shoulde besing his muses horce.

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1828.  Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 239. Let him worship and besing the idols of the time.

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1860.  Dickens, Uncomm. Trav., iii. In the Charter which has been so much besung.

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1865.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., IV. XII. i. 119. The Mountain part … besung by rushing torrents.

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