begildv.

/bɪˈɡɪld/

Forms: Also 1600s beguild.

Etymology: < be- prefix + gild v.

transitive. To cover with, or as with, gold.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > gild and silver [verb (transitive)] > gild

overgildOE

gildOE

gilt?a1400

to paint overa1400

overgilt?a1425

engildc1475

limn1548

deaurate1562

regild1583

begild1600

1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xviii. xv. 318 Begilding (with the radiantbeames she threw) His helme.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 47/1 To waste as muche to polish and be-guild As would a charitable Almes-house build.

1648 Earl of Westmorland Otia Sacra (1879) 38 We may with Eloquence Beguild our Speech.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. iv. 10/2 Any Drawing-room..were it never so begilt.

Derivatives

beˈgilded adj.

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > gilding and silvering > [adjective] > gilded

gildedOE

giltc1330

ygilt1340

gilteda1400

gold-hewna1400

gold-beatenc1400

gold-beata1413

overgilta1425

parcel-gilt1453

party-gilt1469

begilded1594

inaurated1623

parcela1625

begilta1637

water-gilt1707

inaurate1855

1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne iii. 113 Her beguil [d] ed lockes..betainted red, As gold growes ruddie.

beˈgilt adj.

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