besoilv.
/bɪˈsɔɪl/ transitive. To soil, stain, sully; also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)]
sulec897
smitOE
soil1297
besoila1300
bysulpc1400
smudgec1430
dauba1450
smirch1495
smotter1513
suddle1513
smada1525
coinquinatea1529
puddle1535
moil1575
smut1587
sud1593
sully1601
coninquinate1609
smirch1615
smutcha1616
beslurry1627
besullya1645
smoot1683
besmircha1700
be-smutch1832
guggle1866
dirten1906
a1300 Pains of Hell 91 in Old Eng. Misc. 225 And summe he sauȝ bi-suyled · as souwes..vp to þe brouwes.
c1315 Shoreham 108 Thys men by-soyled beth.
a1500 (?c1450) Merlin x. 165 His swerde, all be-soyled with blode of men and of horse.
a1670 J. Hacket Scrinia Reserata (1693) ii. 164 The Remonstrance..came forth..to besoil His Majesty's Reign.
1798 R. Southey Sonn. xii Cobwebs and dust thy pinions white besoil.
Derivatives
beˈsoiled adj.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective]
solc1200
soileda1250
suddly1488
sullied1571
smirched1600
besmircheda1616
smutted1622
moiled1632
soily1677
smutched1785
besoiled1834
smirchy1889
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. iv. 82/1 All weather-tanned, besoiled.
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