besmokev.
/bɪˈsməʊk/ transitive. To fill with smoke, to act on with smoke, to fumigate.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > disinfect [verb (transitive)] > fumigate
smokec1000
smeekOE
besmokea1398
fumec1400
suffounge1490
perfume1538
fumifya1704
fumigate1781
stove1805
pastille1846
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. liii. 1205 If a man bysmokeþ þe hous of þe emptes wiþ brynstoun..þe emptes forsaken and leuen here hous.
1574 T. Hill Ord. Bees xv Besmoke the hive with flaxe.
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Affumare, to besmoake, to drie in the smoake as bacon.
a1618 J. Sylvester Tobacco Battered in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Diuine Weekes & Wks. (1621) 1133 Mists of Rome, Which have so long be-smoaked Christendom.
1823 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 56 126 They besmoak us with a disgusting mixture of sacrifice and frankincense.
Derivatives
beˈsmoked adj.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > disinfecting > [adjective] > relating to fumigation > fumigated
besmokedc1374
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. 5 It is wont to dirken by-smoked ymages.
1854 C. Dickens Hard Times ii. vi. 194 The besmoked evergreens were sprinkled with a dirty powder.
beˈsmoking n.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Enfumement, a smoaking, a besmoaking.
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