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bespeared

bespeared adjective: equipped or furnished with a spear.

Adjective

bespeared (comparative more bespeared, superlative most bespeared)

  1. Equipped or furnished with a spear.
    • The keeping eunuchs were at back, solemn in stately rows, bespeared and bescimitared, the Danish, Irish, and German of their countenances lost in the daub which made them swart.1905, Samuel Major Gardenhire, The Silence of Mrs. Harrold - Page 277
    • My definition of war will stand on my definition of militarism, and my definition of militarism goes back thru the Roman milites, helmeted and bespeared, massed in legions or formed in testudines, back to the slopes of Kabulstan and the plains of the Jumna and the Ganges, […]1915, Journal of Proceedings and Addresses of the […] Annual Meeting, volume 53

Forms of bespeared

comparativemore bespeared
superlativemost bespeared

Origin of bespeared

From be- + speared.

Questions about bespeared

What does bespeared mean?
Bespeared means equipped or furnished with a spear.
What part of speech is bespeared?
Bespeared is an adjective.

Words near bespeared in the dictionary

  1. bespeakers
  2. bespeakest
  3. bespeaketh
  4. bespeaking
  5. bespeaks
  6. bespeared
  7. bespeckle
  8. bespeckled
  9. bespeckles
  10. bespeckling
  11. bespectacled

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