bemonster

Verb

bemonster (third-person singular simple present bemonsters, present participle bemonstering, simple past and past participle bemonstered)

1. (transitive) To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform.
   • Thou changed and self-cover’d thing, for shame!
     Bemonster not thy feature!c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
   • One would think that clothing an official with decent taste was not a herculean task: yet ask a foreigner his opinion of the poor bemonstered force which protects our lives and purses. He might suppose that Dykwynkyn, or some other of the artists who work for the pantomimes, had designed the...1871 February 25, uncredited author, “Wanted for London”, in All the Year Round, page 306
2. (transitive) To fill or cover with monsters.
   • So leap’d the men, half-sepulchred in sack,
     Up-swinging, with their shapes be-monstring sky,1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, Edinburgh: George Goldie, 2nd edition, 1814, Canto 4, Stanza 21, p. 119
   • It was one of the League’s rare open exhibitions, and nonmembers in ordinary dress thronged among the cartoon-colored pavilions, the hedges of bemonstered appliqué banners, and the blazons strung on wire between trees.1986, Peter S. Beagle, chapter 12, in The Folk of the Air, New York: Ballantine, page 165
3. (transitive) To regard or treat (someone) as a monster; to call (someone) a monster.
   • It […] ends with a crude but forceful intensification of the lust and blood of the Italian novella, complicated with the popular theme of scandalising the Pope and bemonstering the Jew.1921, R. H. Case, Review of The Percy Reprints: The Unfortunate Traveller by Thomas Nashe, The Modern Language Review, Volume 16, No. 1, January 1921, p. 77