besung

English

Etymology

From besing. Compare Dutch bezongen, German besungen.

Adjective

besung (comparative more besung, superlative most besung)

1. Sung of; sung about; glorified or praised in song.
   • 1868, William Morris, “June: The Love of Alcestis”, in The Earthly Paradise: A Poem, parts [I and II], London: F[rederick] S[tartridge] Ellis, […], →OCLC, page 490:

     Better to him seemed that victorious crown, / That midst the reverent silence of the town / He oft would set upon some singer's brow / Than was the conqueror's diadem, blest now / By lying priests, soon, bent and bloody, hung / Within the thorn by linnets well besung, / Who think but little of the corpse beneath, / Though ancient lands have trembled at his breath.

   • 1897, The Virginia Spectator, University of Virginia:

     O fair midspring, besung so oft and oft, How can I praise thy loveliness enow?

Verb

besung

1. past participle of besing