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besprent

[ bih-sprent ]

adjective

Archaic.
  1. besprinkled; bestrewn.


besprent

/ ɪˈɛԳ /

adjective

  1. poetic.
    sprinkled over
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of besprent1

1325–75; Middle English bespre ( y ) nt, past participle of besprengen, Old English besprengan, equivalent to be- be- + sprengan to sprinkle, akin to spring
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of besprent1

C14: past participle of Old English besprengan to besprinkle
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The floor with tassels of fir was besprent.

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A lady, graced with solitude, who went Singing, and setting flower by flower apart, By which the path she walked on was besprent.

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O'erturned his infant's bed he found, The bloodstained cover rent; And all around the walls and ground With recent blood besprent.

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Nations besprent with Abrahamic blood Meet there and mingle in that widening flood.

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During the absence of the moon the blue-black vault appears like a robe of imperial purple, besprent with innumerable diamonds of a lustre unknown to earth's feeble gems.

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