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bemire, v.|bɪˈmaɪə(r)|
[f. be- prefix 6 + mire n.]
Hence beˈmired ppl. a., beˈmiring vbl. n.
1. trans. To cover or befoul with mire.
c1532More Answ. Frith Wks. 833/2 If only they that are alredy bymired, were..myred on more and more. 1727Swift Gulliver ii. v. 144, I was filthily bemired. 1837Hawthorne Twice-told T. (1851) II. xvi. 237 His shoes were bemired, as if he had been travelling on foot.
b. fig.1587Golding De Mornay Pref. 1 Bemiring it [reason] in the filthy and beastly pleasures of the world. 1601Cornwallyes Ess. x. (1632), Good safe care to keep herself from bemiring. 1870Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xvii. 3 The purest innocence will be bemired by malice.
2. To plunge or roll in the mire; in pass. to sink in the mire, be bogged. lit. and fig.
1574Hellowes Gueuara's Ep. (1577) 354 If we sinke not to the bottome, at the leaste we remaine all bemyred. 1654Trapp Comm. Ps. xl. 2. II. 690 As a bemired beast he was in a perishing condition. 1771Wesley Wks. (1872) VI. 36 Doubt..bemires the soul. 1883Century 377 Bemired in the deeply rutted roads. |