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Definition for BE'MA
BE-LYE'
BE-MAD'
BE'MA
, n. [Gr. βημα.]
A chancel. [Not in use.] – Beaumont.
In ancient Greece, a stage or kind of pulpit, on which speakers stood when addressing an assembly. – Mitford.
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