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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of berhyme.

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Examples

  • And the girl beside him was beautiful enough to take Whitehall by storm, to be berhymed by Waller, and to give to Lely a subject above all flattery.

    Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia Mary Johnston 1903

  • In the _Merchant of Venice_, at all events, there is hardly a single character from Portia to old Gobbo, a single incident from the exaction of Shylock's bond to the computation of hairs in Launcelot's beard and Dobbin's tail, which has not been more plentifully beprosed than ever Rosalind was berhymed.

    A Study of Shakespeare Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873

  • Lines to the "Mariposa" flower were as thick as the lovely blossoms themselves in the Merced valley, and the Madrone tree was as "berhymed" as Rosalind.

    The Bell-Ringer of Angel's Bret Harte 1869

  • 'I never was so berhymed since I was an Irish rat, which I can scarcely remember.'

    The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • I was so awkward a booby, that I dared scarcely speak to her; I was filled with awe and embarrassment in her presence; but I was so inspired that my poetical temperament for the first time broke out in verse; and I fabricated some glowing lines, in which I berhymed the little lady under the favourite name of Sacharissa.

    Tales of a Traveller 1824

  • Scotland, they would each and all have been berhymed and bepainted until every point of real or imaginable loveliness had been exhausted: for myself, I have looked on many lakes, and by none have been more delightfully beguiled than by a contemplation of this during some nine hours of sunshine, sunset, and twilight, the last alone too brief.

    Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II. Tyrone Power 1818

  • 187, 'I was never so berhymed since Pythagoras' time, that I was an Irish rat, which I can hardly remember '; _Twelfth Night_, IV. ii.

    Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

  • "Hmm … I think it's sincerity and honesty that has been berhymed by our poets.

    Matador Network 2009

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