begem

[ bih-jem ]

verb (used with object)

, be·gemmed, be·gem·ming.

1. to cover with gems. gems.

Word History and Origins

Origin of begem¹

First recorded in 1740–50; be- + gem

Example Sentences

Those lonely realms bright garden isles begem.

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Begem, be-jem′, v.t. to adorn, as with gems.

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Gardens and domes—bazars, begem the woods— Seraglio, harems, peopled solitudes, Where the veil'd idol kneels; and vistas through Barr'd lattices, that give th' enamoured view; Flowers, orange-trees—and waters sparkling near.

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Its children will be as the grains of sand that bar the ocean's waves, or the stars that begem the vault of night.

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"Indeed it did not," he thought bitterly, and not for the first time he missed something in her—some spirit of simplicity, freshness, flower-bloom, and purity that he had sought for, seen in many women, and found elusive, as the frost finds the bloom of flowers he would begem.

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