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bespice

bespice verb: to season with spice, or with some spicy drug.

Verb

bespice (third-person singular simple present bespices, present participle bespicing, simple past and past participle bespiced)

  1. (transitive) To season with spice, or with some spicy drug.
    • Ay, and thou, / His cupbearer […] / mightst bespice a cup / To give mine enemy a lasting wink; / Which draught to me were cordial.c. 1610–1611, William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, act 1, scene 2, lines 312–318

Forms of bespice

third-person singular presentbespices
present participlebespicing
past participlebespiced
pastbespiced

Origin of bespice

From be- + spice.

Questions about bespice

What does bespice mean?
Bespice means to season with spice, or with some spicy drug.
What part of speech is bespice?
Bespice is a verb.
What is the past tense of bespice?
The past tense of bespice is bespiced.

Words near bespice in the dictionary

  1. bespend
  2. bespew
  3. bespewed
  4. bespewing
  5. bespews
  6. bespice
  7. bespiced
  8. bespices
  9. bespicing
  10. bespies
  11. bespin

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