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Definition of Besprinkle
1. Verb. Scatter with liquid; wet lightly. "They besprinkle the bread with melted butter"; "Sprinkle the lawn"
Generic synonyms: Wet
Derivative terms: Sprinkle, Sprinkler, Sprinkling
Definition of Besprinkle
1. v. t. To sprinkle over; to scatter over.
Definition of Besprinkle
1. Verb. (archaic) to sprinkle with ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Besprinkle
1. [v -KLED, -KLING, -KLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Besprinkle
Literary usage of Besprinkle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"With this juice in the dead of the night they go and besprinkle the tiger's dens,
the vertue of which is such that the tigers not being able to stir forth ..."
2. Thoughts on scriptural subjects by Benjamin Wills Newton (1871)
"ITJ, and our right to render it " besprinkle." Elsewhere it is uniformly followed
by a preposition (commonly 7J?) and is used to denote the act of ..."
3. The Graves-Ditzler, Or, Great Carrollton Debate by James Robinson Graves, Jacob Ditzler (1876)
"Lavo wherever modal, is sprinkle, besprinkle, and every Latin lexicon I ever saw
gives besprinkle as a meaning. Dr. Graves leaves out the definition of ..."
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