Behedge

Pronunciation varies by accent · verb

Meaning

(transitive) To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge..

Definitions by Sense

1. (transitive) To hedge about; surround with or as with a hedge.
2. (transitive) To determine the boundary or limit of; define.
3. (transitive) To surround; beset; plague; hinder.
4. (transitive) To straiten; restrict; constrain; limit.

Example Sentences

[...] so that, though he had neither fixed flag not fixed father to cloud his thought and behedge his landscape, he could still, he used to say, share in the gush about ancestry.

Having been spawned in a royal bed — perchance the same in which his great gran'dame Catherine was wont to receive her paramours — he becomes the most powerful of princes — haloed with "that divinity which doth behedge a king" — and all [...]

Reflection finds the circumstance unfortunate that most of the agreeable actions of life are either forbidden or else deplorably behedged with restrictions.

[...] nor is it necessary to do more than call attention to a few indisputable facts to prove that the public policy he recommends would do little or nothing to ameliorate the hard conditions that behedge the toiling millions.

The remaining heirs are therefore not to be defeated by any of the restrictions that behedge the remedies available to the third-party beneficiary of a contract; [...]

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