besmittian

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Old English

Etymology

By surface analysis, be- +‎ smittian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /beˈsmit.ti.ɑn/

Verb

besmittian

to pollute, defile

References

Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “be-smittian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

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