Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to beseech
Participle: besought
Gerund: beseeching
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | beseech |
| you | beseech |
| he;she;it | beseeches |
| we | beseech |
| you | beseech |
| they | beseech |
Perfect
| I | have besought |
| you | have besought |
| he;she;it | has besought |
| we | have besought |
| you | have besought |
| they | have besought |
Past
| I | besought |
| you | besought |
| he;she;it | besought |
| we | besought |
| you | besought |
| they | besought |
Pluperfect
| I | had besought |
| you | had besought |
| he;she;it | had besought |
| we | had besought |
| you | had besought |
| they | had besought |
Future
| I | will beseech |
| you | will beseech |
| he;she;it | will beseech |
| we | will beseech |
| you | will beseech |
| they | will beseech |
Future Perfect
| I | will have besought |
| you | will have besought |
| he;she;it | will have besought |
| we | will have besought |
| you | will have besought |
| they | will have besought |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | beseech |
| you | beseech |
| he;she;it | beseech |
| we | beseech |
| you | beseech |
| they | beseech |
Perfect
| I | have besought |
| you | have besought |
| he;she;it | have besought |
| we | have besought |
| you | have besought |
| they | have besought |
Imperfect
| I | besought |
| you | besought |
| he;she;it | besought |
| we | besought |
| you | besought |
| they | besought |
Pluperfect
| I | had besought |
| you | had besought |
| he;she;it | had besought |
| we | had besought |
| you | had besought |
| they | had besought |
Conditional
Present
| I | would beseech |
| you | would beseech |
| he;she;it | would beseech |
| we | would beseech |
| you | would beseech |
| they | would beseech |
Perfect
| I | would have besought |
| you | would have besought |
| he;she;it | would have besought |
| we | would have besought |
| you | would have besought |
| they | would have besought |
Imperative
| you | beseech |
| we | Let's beseech |
| you | beseech |
Verbs conjugated like 'beseech'
beseech,
Verbs similar to 'beseech'
bespeech,
besee,
beseek,
beseem,
beteach,
breech,
beach,
becatch,
bedeck,
bedeem,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. c.1175,
bisecen "to beseech, beg urgently," from
be- + M.E.
secen "to seek" (see seek).
2. From Middle English besechen, bisechen, prefixed form of Old English sēċan (“to seek or inquire about”); compare the doublet beseek, from the same dialect that gave seek. Cognate with Saterland Frisian besäike (“to visit”), Dutch bezoeken (“to visit, attend, see”), German besuchen (“to visit, attend, see”), Swedish besöka (“to visit, go to see”). By surface analysis, be- + seech. See: Frisian, Saterlandic 'besäike', Dutch '
bezoeken', German, old spelling '
besuchen', Swedish '
besöka'.
Verbs referencing "beseech"
German, old spelling
besuchen, Swedish
besöka, Bavarian bsuacha.
Sample Sentences
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This was to travel south, only to Richmond in Virginia; and then to turn, and shape our course for the Far West; whither I beseech the reader 's company, in a new chapter.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] spotless infancy; by the motherly pity and tenderness with which you guide his growing years; by the anxieties of his education; by the prayers you breathe for his soul's eternal good; — I beseech you, pity the mother who has all your affections, and not one legal right to protect, guide, or educate, the child of her bosom ! By the sick hour of your child; by those dying eyes, which you can [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] by those dying eyes, which you can never forget; by those last cries, that wrung your heart when you could neither help nor save; by the desolation of that empty cradle, that silent nursery,—I beseech you, pity those mothers that are constantly made childless by the American slave-trade ! And say, mothers of America, is this a thing to be defended, sympathized with, passed over in silence ?
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)