betossed

English

Etymology

be- +‎ tossed

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /bɪˈtɒsɪd/, /bɪˈtɒst/

Adjective

betossed (comparative more betossed, superlative most betossed)

(poetic) tossed around; turbulent
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii]:
  What ſaid my man, when my betoſſed ſoule / Did not attend him as we rode?
- 1898, Thomas Hardy, The Two Men:
  Once done, his soul was so betossed,
  It found no more the force it lost.

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