befilmed

English

Adjective

befilmed (comparative more befilmed, superlative most befilmed)

1. (poetic, archaic, rare) Covered with a film.
   • 1854, Thomas Lake Harris, An Epic of the Starry Heaven, →OCLC:

     So Seers on the Earth, through shaded eyes / Befilmed with sense, have seen dense shadows rise, […]

   • 1892, Thomas John Hardy, Asdrufel: A Soul's Episode, →OCLC:

     And oft without upon the stretching plain, / All else befilm’d with vapours and black night […]

   • 1894, Joseph Herman Hertz, The Ethical System of James Martineau, →OCLC:

     The first relativity spoken of, which makes our ideal of character (that very same which reverence surrounds with such sacredness) to be but a bespecked and befilmed third-hand copy of the eternal rights […]

Verb

befilmed

1. simple past and past participle of befilm