befilming

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