Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Beteem

Beteem ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Prefix be- + an old verb teem to be fitting; compare Dutch betamen to beseem, German ziemen, Gothic gatiman, and English tame. See Tame, a.]

1.
To give; to bestow; to grant; to accord; to consent. [Obsolete] — Spenser. Milton
2.
To allow; to permit; to suffer. [Obsolete]
So loving to my mother, That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. — Shakespeare