v. [UN-1 14.]
1. trans. To be unseemly or unbecoming for (a person); to suit (one) badly.
a. 1657. R. Loveday, Lett. (1663), 30. I write his Letters, and [do] whatever else that unbeseems not his command or my obedience.
1678. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, IV. III. Pref. A ij. Passionate emotions, personal reflexions, or whatever may unbeseem one that lies under essential obligation [etc.].
1846. H. G. Robinson, Odes of Horace, II. xii. Whom it neer unbeseemd to bear foot in the dance.
2. To fail in, fall short of.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., To Ianthe, ii. Ah! mayst thou ever be what now thou art, Nor unbeseem the promise of thy spring.
1870. Creasy, Hist. Eng., II. 336. But be soon unbeseemned that promise.