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Definition of Bespattered
1. bespatter [v] - See also: bespatter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bespattered
Literary usage of Bespattered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... that I am assaulted with the Ignorance of partial and prejudicial Readers,
who have bespattered with the blackest Obloquy they can, a Piece lately ..."
2. The Standard Library of Natural History: Embracing Living Animals of the by Charles John Cornish (1908)
"Away he launched, and the meadow is all bespattered with melody." Where rice is
extensively cultivated, however, this bird is by no means so ..."
3. An Editor's Retrospect: Fifty Years of Newspaper Work by Charles Alfred Cooper (1896)
"... IV Old electioneering—Hustings experiences—A bespattered candidate —Corrupt
practices—Flags and voters—A County election— Lord Hotham—Lord Ripon's first ..."
4. A Journal of the Proceedings in Georgia, Beginning October 20, 1737: By by William Stephens (1906)
"... who A^ri (he said) bespattered him daily with opprobrious Stories given out,
and laying most scandalous Things to his Charge, which he defied him to ..."
5. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1885)
"... (L,) or *j~j, (Msb,) aor. and inf. n. as above, He sullied, or bespattered,
... bespattered, [rubbed over, or overspread,] or splashed, him or it, much. ..."
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