belady

English

Etymology

be- +‎ lady

Verb

belady (third-person singular simple present beladies, present participle beladying, simple past and past participle beladied)

1. To promote to the status of lady.
   • 1898, William O'Brien, A Queen of Men, page 19:

     We see those begraced and beladied in the Queen's name whom the Prophet doomed to be fried in the fire of the King of Babylon.

   • 1920, James F. Waight, Richard II, page 66:

     So they beladied me I was red hot with shame. But yesterday They did disdain only to bend their eyes Upon so low a girl.

   • 1916, Rovert Frost, In the Home Stretch:

     Never was I beladied so before. Would evidence of having been called lady More than so many times make me a lady In common law, I wonder.

Anagrams

• Badley, Dalbey, dyable