Definition of "bestridden" [bestridden]

• Past participle of bestride (verb)

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• "Never have so many human mastodons bestridden the earth as now."
• "I am already thinking about possible research subjects, though the question cannot really arise for several years yet, as I should very much like to feel that I have done some work by the time I leave academia behind, and also because I want to cock a snook at that absurd fellow who has bestridden the field for forty years like a pinchbeck colossus."
• "It does not become disconcerted, but adjusts to its divine work the man who has bestridden the Alps, and the good old tottering invalid of Father Elysee."