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▪ I. besprent, ppl. a.|bɪˈsprɛnt|
[f. prec., where see forms.]
Besprinkled. a. with moisture of any kind, or dust.
c1368Chaucer Compl. Pite 10 To Pite ran I all bespreynt [v.r. besprente] with teres. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 269/1 Thre stones besprenct with his bloode. Ibid. 353/1 Stones bespryncte and specled as it were with blood. 1535Joye Apol. Tindale (Arb.) 17 Euen unto the bespreigned bloude. 1561Jr. Heywood Seneca's Herc. Furens (1581) 19 My body thus with wicked bloud besprinct. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Nov. 111 Morne now my muse..with teares besprint. 1634Milton Comus 542 Knot-grass dew-besprent. a1866Longfellow Sir Christopher 133 His boots with dust and mire besprent.
b. with points, or objects dotted about: Strewed.
1556Abp. Parker Psalter cii[i], My soule with cares was full besprenct. 1837Wordsw. At Vallombrosa, The flowerbesprent meadows. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 162 The tawdry tent..besprent with hearts and darts.
2. Scattered, strewed about.
1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 15 Having certain blottes besprent upon it. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 139 He lay upon the flowers besprent about.
▪ II. † beˈsprent, v. Obs. rare—1.
[improperly f. prec.]
trans. To besprinkle.
1573Twyne æneid xii. Mm iv, Latinus rentes His hoarie head..and auntient beard with durt besprentes. |