Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To sprinkle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To sprinkle over; scatter over: as, to
besprinkle with dust.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To sprinkle over; to scatter over.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb archaic to
sprinkle with
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb scatter with liquid; wet lightly
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Behold the maiden on her way, the destroyer of Ilium's town and its Phrygians, with garlands twined about her head, and drops of lustral water on her, soon to besprinkle with her gushing blood the altar of a murderous goddess, what time her shapely neck is severed.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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So he returned to his place and sat down, where upon all the handmaidens stood up and the lady bade them perfume him with pastiles and besprinkle his face with rose-water.
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Behold the maiden on her way, the destroyer of Ilium's town and its Phrygians, with garlands twined about her head, and drops of lustral water on her, soon to besprinkle with her gushing blood the altar of a murderous goddess, what time her shapely neck is severed.
Iphigenia at Aulis 2008
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And when they goe abroade, they besprinkle them selues with fragraunt oyles, to be swete at the smelle.
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Eventide was falling with tardy languor, but, as yet, the sun, though become a gigantic, dull, red lentil in appearance, was not hidden, and the waves were still powerless to besprinkle his downward road of fire.
Through Russia 2003
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Vials of good sweet waters, and casting bottels of glasses to besprinkle the ghests withall, after their comming aboord.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.
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When the bees inside the hive hang clustering to one another, it is a sign that the swarm is intending to quit; consequently, occasion, when a bee-keepers, on seeing this, besprinkle the hive with sweet wine.
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Thy great goodness besprinkle for me that sweetness?
The Confessions 1999
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So long as thou dost not besprinkle those same bodies with thy water, there is no salvation for these same Sagara's sons.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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