Definition of "bestrid" [bestrid]

• Preterit and past participle of bestride.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "The gulf is so enormous that unless someone does something reckless it will never be bestrid or over-arched."
• "Amazonian fair having overthrown and bestrid her enemy, was now cuffing him lustily with both her hands, without any regard to his request of a cessation of arms, or to those loud exclamations of murder which he roared forth."
• "Aided by the dramatist, Shakespeare, who has told their story in an immortal play, Antony will live in our imagination as a gianl figure, one whose 'legs bestrid the ocean' and whose 'reared arm/Crested the world'."