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Definition of Bestir
1. Verb. Become active. "He finally bestirred himself"
Definition of Bestir
1. v. t. To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor; -- usually with the reciprocal pronoun.
Definition of Bestir
1. Verb. (transitive) To put into brisk or vigorous action; to move with life and vigor. ¹
2. Verb. (intransitive) To become active; to rouse oneself. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bestir
1. to rouse [v -STIRRED, -STIRRING, -STIRS] - See also: rouse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestir
Literary usage of Bestir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"On thy wound Let thine own servant tend ; but I must haste Hence to bestir Achilles
to the war. Who knows if, with the sufferance of Heaven, ..."
2. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... and to preserve if possible that part of Holborn, while the rest of ye gentlemen
tooke their several posts (for now they began to bestir themselves, ..."
3. New Letters of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle (1904)
"... and, except for a temporary insult to our coasts, there was not, and could
not soon be, even a possibility; and that, on the whole, if we had to bestir ..."
4. A History of the Late Province of Lower Canada: Parliamentary and Political by Robert Christie (1866)
"... hostile to the government, began to think it time to bestir and place themselves
in an attitude suited to the approaching crisis. ..."
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