Frombe- +‎sort.

• IPA^(key): /bɪˈsɔː(ɹ)t/

besort (third-person singular simple presentbesorts,present participlebesorting,simple past and past participlebesorted)

1. (transitive, obsolete) Tosuit;fit;become.
   • c.1603–1606,William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene iv]:

     such men as maybesort your age

besort (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Somethingfitting orappropriate;suitablecompany,associates, orattendants.
   • c.1603–1604 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I, scene iii]:

     With such accommodation andbesort / As levels with her breeding.

“besort”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.:G. & C. Merriam,1913,→OCLC.

• Boster,Stober,Tobers,borest,sorbet,strobe,tobers

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