Meaning of bemire | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To soil with mud or a similar substance.
   archaic
2. To immerse or trap in mire.
   archaic
3. To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.
   figuratively

Examples

“The Minde, constrain’d the Bodies want⟳ to feele, Makes Salves of Earth the Bodies hurt⟳ to heale, Which doe the Mind⟳ bemire with thoughts vnfitt;”

“Ah me! while I fond wretch indulge my Dreams, Winds blast my Flow’rs, and Boars bemire my Streams.”

“There was a Cow-Dung in the Path, and I must needs try⟳ my Activity by attempting to leap⟳ over it. I took a Run⟳, but unfortunately jumped short, and found my self just in the Middle up to my Knees. I waded through with some Difficulty, and one of the Footmen wiped me as clean⟳ as he could with his Handkerchief; for I was filthily bemired […]”

“I wished to rise⟳; but what could I put⟳ on? Only my damp and bemired apparel; in which I had slept on the ground and fallen in the marsh.”

“True, there are by the direction of the Law-giver, certain good and subs[tantial] Steps, placed even through the very midst of this Slough; but at such a time as this place⟳ doth much spue out [its filth] as it doth against change⟳ of weather, these steps are hardly seen; or if they be, Men through the diziness of their heads, step besides; and then they are bemired to purpose, notwithstanding the steps be there […]”

“In two of the morasses there was not depth sufficient to have⟳ bemired an animal of such magnitude and strength […]”

“I saw⟳ your horse bemired, and put⟳ him from his agony; which, by my sooth! an ye had been a more merciful rider, ye had done yourself.”

“Likely the stage-coach is bemired. The roads at this season of the year are none too good.”

“"We have⟳ to stop⟳ him at any cost⟳. That is the way our Cause gets bemired. Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of the honest mediums get⟳ discounted."”

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