bespurt
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bespurt (third-person singular simple present bespurts, present participle bespurting, simple past and past participle bespurted)
- (obsolete) To spurt on or over; to sprinkle.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:
- send home his haughtiness well bespurted with his own holy water
References[edit]
- “bespurt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.