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▪ I. bestride, v.|bɪˈstraɪd|
Pa. tense bestrode; also bestrid. Pa. pple. bestridden; also -strid, -strode, (8 -strodden). For other forms see stride.
[OE. bi-, bestrídan, f. bi-, be- 4 + strídan to stride. Cf. MHG. bestrîden, MDu. bestryden.]
1. To sit upon with the legs astride.
a. To ride, mount (a horse, etc.). The original use.
c1000ælfric Hom. II. 136 He his hors bestrad. c1300K. Alis. 706 Bulsifal that hors het..No dorste no mon him bystryde. c1386Chaucer Sir Thopas 192 His goode Steede al he bistrood. c1450Laud MS. 595 f. 1 The worthiest wyght in wede That ever by-strod any stede. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. v. 79 That horse that thou so often hast bestrid. 1630Tink. Turvey 17, I never bestrad any one beast in my life but a mare. a1771Gray Fatal Sisters 63 Sisters, hence with spurs of speed..Each bestride her sable steed. 1817Byron Manfred ii. ii. 7 The Giant steed, to be bestrode by Death. 1853Kingsley Hypatia xxii. 281 Ostriches..bestridden each by a tiny cupid.
b. To sit across (other things) as on a horse.
c1205Lay. 28020 Þa halle ich gon bistriden Swulc ich wolde riden. 1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. ii. ii. 31 When he bestrides the lasie pacing cloudes. 1785Cowper Task ii. 439 Through the pressed nostril, spectacle-bestrid. 1793Southey in Life (1849) I. 180 The driving blast, bestrodden by the spirit of Ossian. 1822Scott Nigel i, Who can say what nose they [the barnacles] may bestride.
fig.1752Bp. Warburton Lett. Emin. Prelate (1809) 119 The Church, bestrid by some bumpish minister of state, who turns and winds it at his pleasure. 1865Bushnell Vicar. Sacr. iii. vi. 320 The wrath that is to bridle and bestride everlastingly His will and counsel.
2. To stand over (a place) with the legs astride; to straddle over, to bestraddle. Also fig.
1601Shakes. Jul. C. i. ii. 135 He doth bestride the narrow world like a Colossus. 1606― Ant. & Cl. v. ii. 82 His legges bestrid the Ocean. 1787Bentham Def. Usury xiii. 131 Your formidable image bestriding the ground. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 53 A statue..called the Colossus of Rhodes, is said to have bestridden the mouth of the harbour.
b. To stand over, as a victor over the fallen.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 97 b, His crucifyers bestrydynge hym. 1719Young Revenge v. ii, How I bestride your prostrate conqueror! 1826Scott Woodst. ix, He seemed already to bestride the land which he had conquered.
c. To stand over (a fallen man) in order to defend him; also fig. to defend, protect, support.
1580North Plutarch 236 A Romaine souldier being thrown to the ground euen harde by him, Martius straight bestrid him, and slew the enemie. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 192 When I bestrid thee in the warres, and tooke Deepe scarres to saue thy life. 1605― Macb. iv. iii. 4. 1642 Chas. I Answ. 19 Prop. 2 They have..bestridde Sir John Hotham in his bold-faced Treason. 1847Tennyson Princ. ii. 224 As he bestrode my Grandsire, when he fell, And all else fled.
†d. intr. To stand astride. Obs.
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W.) 254 His turmentours or crucifyers moost unreuerently bestrydynge ouer his blessed face.
3. transf. of things (e.g. a rainbow, bridge). trans.
1728Thomson Spring 203 Bestriding earth, the grand ethereal bow Shoots up immense. 1785Cowper Task iv. 3 Yonder bridge That with its wearisome, but needful length Bestrides the wintry flood. 1860Hawthorne Marb. Faun (1878) II. xix. 222 Bestridden by old, triumphal arches.
4. To stride across, to step across with long strides. Also fig.
c1600Rob. Hood (Ritson) ii. x. 62 Deepe water he did bestride. 1607Shakes. Cor. iv. v. 124 When I first my wedded Mistris saw Bestride my Threshold. 1814Byron Corsair iii. xix. 13 He..Strives through the surge, bestrides the beach. 1824Dibdin Libr. Comp. 615, I shall bestride the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Hence beˈstrider, beˈstriding vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1618Bolton Florus ii. vi. 95 If his Sonne..had not rescued his Father from certaine death itselfe with bold bestriding him. 1830Southey Yng. Dragon II. 77 The fiercest steed that e'er To battle bore bestrider. 1849Dickens Dav. Copp. xiii, A third animal laden with a bestriding child.
▪ II. † beˈstride, prep. Obs. rare—1.
For astride, influenced by the vb.
1813J. C. Hobhouse Journey 408 A marble lion..with the legs of a man bestride him. |