belepered

English

Etymology

From be- +‎ leper +‎ -ed.

Adjective

belepered (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Infected with leprosy.
   • c. 1626 or 1629–1633 (first performance), [John Ford], ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act IV, signature H, verso:

     Thus vvill I pull thy hayre, and thus I'le drag / Thy luſt be-leapred body through the duſt.

Further reading

• “beleper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.