beray

Definitions

To make foul; befoul; soil.

Examples

“[U]pon a vaine and fooliſh ſuperſtition, enjoining men to begrime and beray themſelves with durt, to lie⟳ and vvallovv in the mire, to obſerve Sabbaths and ceaſe from vvorke, to lie⟳ proſtrate and groveling upon the earth with the face⟳ dovvnevvard, to ſit upon the ground in open⟳ place⟳, and to make⟳ many ſtrange and extravagant adorations.”

“1652, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, John French (as J. F.) (translator), Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Also it is said, that if a woman take⟳ a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap⟳ it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry⟳ it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have⟳ sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.”

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