Word.ws English Dictionary

bespate

bespate adjective: that has been spit upon.

Adjective

bespate (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) That has been spit upon.
    • No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.1855, Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came, section XIX

Questions about bespate

What does bespate mean?
Bespate means that has been spit upon.
What part of speech is bespate?
Bespate is an adjective.

Words near bespate in the dictionary

  1. besparkle
  2. besparkled
  3. besparkles
  4. besparkling
  5. bespat
  6. bespate
  7. bespatter
  8. bespattered
  9. bespatterer
  10. bespatterers
  11. bespattereth

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: bespate (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “bespate.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/bespate. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.