archaic : to be fitting or becoming. transitive verb. archaic : to be suitable to : befit.

What does it mean if someone is portentous?

portentous \por-TEN-tuss\ adjective. 1 : of, relating to, or constituting a portent. 2 : eliciting amazement or wonder : prodigious. 3 a : being a grave or serious matter. b : self-consciously solemn or important : pompous.

How do you use Beseeming in a sentence?

It was a quiet, sombre, clerical house, beseeming such a man as the warden, and thus he afterwards frequented it. Mrs. Polly watched them with beseeming awe and deference, but it was a great trial to her, and she grew very nervous over it.