Be*come" , v. t. To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of,
or proper for; to cause
to appear well; -- said of persons and things.
It becomes me
so to speak
of so excellent a poet.
Dryden.
I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress.
Coleridge.
Be*come" (&?;), v. i. [imp.
Became (&?;); p.
p. Become;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Becoming.]
[OE. bicumen,
becumen, AS. becuman to come to, to happen; akin to D.
bekomen, OHG.a piquëman, Goth. biquiman to come upon,
G. bekommen to get, suit. See
Be-, and Come.] 1. To pass from
one state to another; to enter into
some state or condition, by a change from another state, or by assuming or receiving new properties or qualities, additional matter, or a new character.
The Lord God .
. . breathed into his nostrils
the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen. ii.
7.
That error now which is become my crime.
Milton.
2. To come; to get. [Obs.]
But, madam, where is Warwick then become!
Shak.
To become of, to be the present state or place of; to be the fate of; to be the end of; to be the final or
subsequent condition
of.
What
is then become of so huge a multitude?
Sir W. Raleigh.
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