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Definition of Beslaver
1. v. t. To defile with slaver; to beslobber.
Definition of Beslaver
1. Verb. (transitive) To cover with slaver, or anything suggesting slaver. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive figuratively) To cover with fulsome flattery. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Beslaver
1. to slobber upon [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beslaver
Literary usage of Beslaver
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil, Charles James Billson (1906)
"They reach our fields, Their blazing eyes suffused with blood and fire, 210 And
with lithe tongues beslaver mouths that hiss. Pale at the sight we flee. ..."
2. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"The one is to " slate" him with unmeasured maliciousness, the^ other to beslaver
him with indiscriminate praise. It is rather difficult to decide which is ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1890)
"In the second place, he was a dirty Peter, a scurrilous Peter, a malevolent Peter,
a Peter who could beslaver the Prince at the moment that he was assuming ..."
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