"besides oneself" meaning in English

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Prepositional phrase

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-besides oneself.wav
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  1. (Early Modern) Archaic form of beside oneself. Tags: Early, Modern, alt-of, archaic Alternative form of: beside oneself
    Sense id: en-besides_oneself-en-prep_phrase-80YR38c3 Categories (other): Early Modern English, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries
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          "ref": "1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, The Actes off the Apostles xxvj:[24], folio cxcv, recto:",
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