befilm

Verb

befilm (third-person singular simple present befilms, present participle befilming, simple past and past participle befilmed)

1. (archaic, poetic, rare) To cover with a film.
   • As the rod furnishes the only royal road to learning, so the world's neglect offers the man who has not patience and courage for the beaten track, a short-cut to common sense; happy if egotism have not so befilmed his mental sight, that the iron finger points in vain the upward path!1852, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, The Evening Book: Or, Fireside Talk on Morals and Manners, with Sketches of Western Life, →OCLC
   • Every honest effort to be and do right develops sight. Every determination to be and do wrong, befilms it. The voice of the upper Universe cries "be clean."1904 February, “Divine Immanence”, in Benjamin Orange Flower, editor, The Arena, volume 31, number 2