bespurt

English

Alternative forms

• bespirt

Etymology

From be- +‎ spurt.

Verb

bespurt (third-person singular simple present bespurts, present participle bespurting, simple past and past participle bespurted)

1. (obsolete) To spurt on or over; to sprinkle.
   • 1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 2:

     [I]t will be nothing diſagreeing from Chriſtian meekneſſe to handle ſuch a one in a rougher accent, and to ſend home his haughtineſſe well beſpurted with his owne holy-water.

References

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