bestraught
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From be- + straught (“stretched”), modelled after distraught, forstraught, etc.
Adjective
bestraught (comparative more bestraught, superlative most bestraught)
- (obsolete) Distracted; mad, distraught.
- 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter DXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC:
- For, Belford ('tis folly to deny it), I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught.
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Further reading
- N[athan] Bailey (1721) “BESTROUGHT”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], →OCLC, column 1.