Early modern professors would teach, as befit them and the era, from canonical texts in the modern sense: classic or required texts.
It yields relatively low estimates, as we think befits the notion of what is 'strictly necessary'.
Wartime surveys usually focused on physical need, destruction and dilapidation, as befitted a nation that had been under enemy bombardment for some years.
But what shall be his legacy, beyond the witticisms and all the doubting that befit the admirable liberalism of the position?
This doesn't seem to befit the way the world depends on a creator and sustainer.
It is the same for "general classes" and for "ultimate species" (most special types), and befits a phenotype no less than a genotype.
The social codes of the late empire did not consider pain a sensation befitting freemen.
We therefore write targeted, benefited, headed but equipped, befitted, wetted.