To determine the boundary or limit of; define.
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 [...]
From be- + hedge; compare Old English behegian and Dutch beheggen (“to put a hedge around, behedge”).
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