Be*com"ed (&?;), a. Proper; decorous. [Obs.]

And gave him what becomed love I might.

Shak.

Be*com"ing, a. Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.

A low and becoming tone.

Thackeray.

Formerly sometimes followed by of.

Such discourses as are becoming of them.

Dryden.

Syn. -- Seemly; comely; decorous; decent; proper.

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