besides oneself

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besides oneself

1. (Early Modern) Archaic form of beside oneself.
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles xxvj:[24], folio cxcv, recto:

     Feſtus ſayde with a lowde voyce: Paul / thou arte beſides thy ſilfe. Moche learnynge hath made the mad.

   • c. 1531, John Frith, A diſputaciõ of purgatoꝛye [A Disputation of Purgatory]‎^[1]:

     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.