bebleedv.
Obsolete or archaic.
To cover, or stain with blood, make bloody.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain or smear with blood
bebloodyc1210
bebleedc1230
begore?1518
blood1522
imbrue1529
bloody1530
gore1566
engore1593
sanguine1610
gild1614
beblood1623
bleed1634
ensanguine1667
bloodstain1798
vermilion1817
imbue1850
c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 64 A mon bibled [a1250 Nero bledinde mon] is grislich.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 1380 Sche caste hure eȝe on Olyuer & saw him al be-bled.
1485 W. Caxton tr. Thystorye & Lyf Charles the Grete sig. dvjv/1 The place was alle bybled of the blood.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xix. cii. 357 Where lay a warriour murdred new, That all bebled the ground.
1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. xxi. 381 He is all wounded and be-bled.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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