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beglossed

beglossed adjective: rife with glosses.

Adjective (1)

beglossed (comparative more beglossed, superlative most beglossed)

  1. (rare) Rife with glosses
    • The preparatory course to Galen and Avincenna was Aristotle and Euclid, whose voluminously beglossed text must be defended as infallible.1891, Granville Stanley Hall, Carl Allanmore Murchison, Journal of Genetic Psychology, volume 1, page 45

Adjective (2)

beglossed (comparative more beglossed, superlative most beglossed)

  1. Covered as with gloss or a glossy substance
    • Or smaller kinds, as if beglossed with dew
      Shining dim-powdered with a downy blue,
      That on weak tendrils lowly creeping grow […]1920, John Clare, Edmund Blunden, Alan Porter, John Clare: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript, page 74

Forms of beglossed

comparativemore beglossed
superlativemost beglossed

Origin of beglossed

From Middle English *biglosed, past participle of Middle English biglosen, equivalent to be- + gloss + -ed.

From be- + gloss + -ed.

Questions about beglossed

What does beglossed mean?
Beglossed means rife with glosses.
What part of speech is beglossed?
Beglossed is an adjective.

Words near beglossed in the dictionary

  1. beglooms
  2. begloried
  3. beglories
  4. beglory
  5. beglorying
  6. beglossed
  7. begloved
  8. beglue
  9. beglued
  10. beglues
  11. begluing

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