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单词 bespreng
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besprengv.

Forms: Past participle besprent. Forms: Old English besprengan, Middle English bisprenge(n, Middle English besprenge(n. past tense Middle English bisprengede, bysprengede, Middle English besprenged, 1500s besprent. past participle Middle English bisprenged, bysprenged, Middle English–1500s besprenct, Middle English bysprincte, Middle English bispreynt, bespreynt, 1500s besprinct, bespraynte, besprint, bespreigned, 1500s–1600s bespreinct, bespreint, 1500s– besprent.
Etymology: Old English bespręngan , < be- prefix 1 + spręngan to sprinkle < Germanic sprangjan , causative of springan to spring v.1Middle High German, modern German, Middle Dutch, and Dutch have all besprengen in same sense. No part appears after 1600, except the past participle, and this mostly as participial adjective. See bespring v. and besprent v.; also besprink v.
Obsolete except in past participle.
1. transitive. To sprinkle (anything) over:
a. with moisture or powder: To besprinkle, asperse.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > sprinkle liquid or something with liquid [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle something with liquid > over or all over
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berainc1374
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bequirtle1690
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle > sprinkle (a surface) with something
besprengc1000
strinklea1300
to-sprenga1382
sparkle14..
sprinkle?a1425
besprinklec1440
asperse1490
spray1527
asperge1547
pepper?1605
bepeps1622
conspergate1623
bescatter1631
spurtle1633
spatter1647
consperge1657
superfuse1657
bespatter1674
superseminate1699
asperge1721
sparge1786
spray1861
c1000 Sax. Leechd. I. 190 Besprenge hyne mid þam wætere.
c1175 Lamb. Hom. 73 Bi-spreng me lauerd mid buhsumnesse.
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Isa. lii. 15 He schal bisprenge many folkis.
c1430 Syr Generides 7068 Asshes with the water she menged And her white legges al be-sprenged.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clxxxv. f. cviiiv Whome she besprent with many a salte tere.
1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xii. ci. 233 His siluer locks with dust he foule besprent.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 126 Being bespreint, dashed, and drenched quite therewith.
1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 150 As himselfe sacrificed, bespreinct he was with the bloud.
b. with spots or patches of colouring: To speckle.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > spot [verb (transitive)] > speckle
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besprenga1425
prick1530
sprinkle1551
peckle1570
speckle1570
speck1580
pepper?1605
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freckle1613
freck1621
stipplea1774
punctuate1777
dot1784
puncture1848
bespeckle1860
prickle1888
tick1910
a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Gen. xxx. 39 Spotti beestis, and dyuerse, and bispreynt with dyuerse colour.
1486 Bk. St. Albans A viij b Euery tercellis braylis been bysprenged with blake speckes.
2. To sprinkle (a substance or things) about.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > scatter [verb (transitive)] > sprinkle
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sprengeOE
strenkc1175
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sprinkle?a1425
sprainc1440
bespreng1496
oversprinkle?1548
overstrew1570
besprent1573
insperse1587
insperge1599
asperse1607
besprink1609
disparple?1615
spark1637
swiggle1683
twirl1763
sparkle1787
bespatter1813
spray1829
1496 Epit. Iaspar Late Duke of Beddeforde (Pynson) sig. aiiiv Deth me with doloure so hath bespraynte.
c1547 Vox Populi iv, in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. (1843) II. 403 From Scotland into Kent This preaching was bysprent.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 28 Insecta..having for all this life proportionably and equally besprent throughout the whole bodie.
1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto V xlvi. 158 O'er the front There seemed to be besprent a deal of gilding.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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