BECOME
Be*come", v. t.
Defn: To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper for; to cause to appear well; — said of persons and things. It becomes me so to speak of so excellent a poet. Dryden. I have known persons so anxious to have their dress become them, as to convert it, at length, into their proper self, and thus actually to become the dress. Coleridge.
BECOMED
Be*com"ed, a.
Defn: Proper; decorous. [Obs.]
And gave him what becomed love I might. Shak.
BECOMING
Be*com"ing, a.
Defn: Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.
A low and becoming tone. Thackeray.
Note: Formerly sometimes followed by of.
Such discourses as are becoming of them. Dryden.
Syn.
— Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.
BECOMING
Be*com"ing, n.
Defn: That which is becoming or appropriate. [Obs.]