Definition of Besprinkle

1. Verb. Scatter with liquid; wet lightly. "They besprinkle the bread with melted butter"; "Sprinkle the lawn"

Exact synonyms: Sparge, Sprinkle
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

bespotted
bespouse
bespoused
bespouses
bespousing
bespout
bespouted
bespouts
bespread
bespreading
bespreads
besprenge
besprenges
besprenging
besprent
besprinkle (current term)
besprinkled
besprinkles
besprinkling
bespurt
bespurted
bespurting
bespurts
best
best(p)
best-built
best-hung
best-kept secret
best-known
best-looking

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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