Meaning of bespawl | Babel Free

Definitions

To daub, make foul, or soil (someone or something) with spawl or spittle.

obsolete, transitive

Examples

“[T]each thy Incubus to Poëtize, / And throvve abroad thy ſpurious Snotteries, / Vpon that puft-up Lumpe of Barmy froth, / […] / Or Clumſy Chil-blain'd Iudgement; that, vvith Oath, / Magnificates his Merit; and beſpaules / The conſcious Time, vvith humorous Fome; & bravvles, / As if his Organons of Senſe vvould crack / The ſinevves of my Patience.”

“Old Proteus hath been knovvne to leaue his finny Heard, / And in their ſight to ſpunge his foame-beſpavvled beard.”

“Well, since thou wilt bespaul, bedribble the ashes of unhappy Rochel, and scatter⟳ with thy disdainful breath the despised dust of that forlorn city: yet, withal, call⟳ to mind⟳ a little, how not many ages are past, since the time was, that this hereditary sceptre of this, thy now, Lewis broke open⟳ the gates of Rome, demolished the walls, dispersed and slew the inhabitants, and shut⟳ up thy great predecessor, laden with bitter scoffs and execrations, in his blind dungeon.”

“See⟳ hovv this Remonſtrant vvould inveſt himſelfe conditionally vvith all the rheume of the Tovvne, that hee might have⟳ ſufficient to beſpaul his Brethren.”

“Some ten or more years ago the police authorities ordered the introduction of respirators for the use⟳ of workwomen in tobacco factories. Complying with this order⟳, they purchased one respirator for a certain number⟳ of laborers, but it was good for nothing, as workwomen could use⟳ the respirators only by turns, and besides they had an aversion to apply⟳ to their mouths an object which was bespawled by others, consequently the respirators soon disappeared from tobacco manufactories.”

“The doors are covered with the soot of the ages; the walls are bespattered with filth; the roof is closely covered with barbs; the floor is strewn with serpents and bespawled with all kinds of uncleanliness[.]”

“[W]hile he would spit⟳ beyond the table, he all-to-bespawleth him who skinketh at the feast.”

“There where the virginal daughters of our folk were fouled, / Where seven heathen flung each woman down, / And fought to pre-possess, possessed them, and bespawled: / The daughter in the presence of her mother, / The mother in the presence of her daughter, / Before slaughter, during slaughter, and after slaughter!”

“Please⟳ forgive⟳ me for being such a complete⟳ bespawling ditz.”

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