| 释义 |
besmear, v.|bɪˈsmɪə(r)|
Forms: 1 bismierwan, besmyrwan, 3 bismeoruwien, 6 besmeere, -smere, -smire, 6–7 besmeare, 7–8 besmeer, 6– besmear.
[OE. bismierwan, late WSax. besmyrwan, Anglian besmerwan, f. bi-, be- 1 + smierwan, smerwan (pa. t smierede):—OTeut. *smerwjan to smear, f. *smerwo-(m), in OE. smeoru, smeru, ointment, grease.]
trans. To smear over or about; to cover the surface generally or largely with any greasy, viscous, or sticky substance; usually with the notion of soiling or staining: to bedaub.
c1050Gloss. Cott. Cleop. in Wr.-Wülcker Voc. 422/14 Interlitam, besmyred. a1225Ancr. R. 214 Kumeð forð biuoren his Louerde bismitted & bismeoruwed. 1535Joye Apol. Tindale 50 Besmering and dawbing eche other with dirte and myer. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 42 The divelish hag..With wicked herbes and oyntments did besmeare My body. 1601Shakes. Twel. N. v. 55 That face of his..was besmear'd As blacke as Vulcan in the smoake of warre. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) II. 145 They besmear their children with the blood. 1837W. Irving Capt. Bonneville (1849) 42 He..caused the bodies of the wagons to be..besmeared with a compound of tallow and ashes.
b. predicated of the unguent or viscous matter.
a1700Dryden (J.) Her gushing blood the pavement all besmear'd. 1725Pope Odyss. xxii. 329 His batter'd front and brains besmear the stone.
c. intr. (for refl.) To become besmeared.
1587Turberv. Louer confess. (R.) If face besmear with often streames.
2. fig. To sully, defile, pollute.
1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 245/2 That they bee not besmeered with any blame. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. v. 219 My honor would not let ingratitude So much besmeare it. 1612T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 10 (1619) 216 With the black coales of enuious and slanderous inuectiues striuing to besmeare them. 1867Sat. Rev. 5 July, Ministers vie with each other in getting themselues besmeared. |