Meaning of befilmed | Babel Free

Definitions

Covered with a film.

archaic, poetic, rare

Examples

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

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

“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 […]”

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