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Prepositional phrase
besides oneself
- (Early Modern) Archaic form of beside oneself.
c. 1531, John Frith, A diſputaciõ of purgatoꝛye :Notwithſtondinge it came ſo often vnto him / that what with laboure and whate with feare / the man was almoſt beſides him ſilfe / and then was he ſent to Oxfoꝛth to aſke counſell what was beſt to be done.
1759–c. 1763, Christopher Smart, Jubilate Agno; first published as W. F. Stead, editor, Rejoice in the Lamb: A Song from Bedlam, 1939:For I am under the same accusation with my Saviour—for they said, he is besides himself.