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beset
O.E.
besettan
"to put, place; own, keep; cover, surround with, besiege," from P.Gmc.
*bisatjan
(cf. O.S.
bisettjan
, Ger.
besetzen
, Goth.
bisatjan
); see
be-
+
set
(v.). The figurative sense also was in O.E.