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bespirt

bespirt is the alternative form of bespurt.

Meaning of bespurt

Verb

bespurt (third-person singular simple present bespurts, present participle bespurting, simple past and past participle bespurted)

  1. (obsolete) To spurt on or over; to sprinkle.
    • [I]t will be nothing diſagreeing from Chriſtian meekneſſe to handle ſuch a one in a rougher accent, and to ſend home his haughtineſſe well beſpurted with his owne holy-water.1641, [John Milton], “The Preface”, in Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus, London: […] [Richard Oulton and Gregory Dexter] for Thomas Vnderhill, […], →OCLC, page 2

Forms of bespirt

third-person singular presentbespirts
present participlebespirting
past participlebespirted
pastbespirted

Questions about bespirt

What is bespirt the alternative form of?
Bespirt is the alternative form of bespurt.

Words near bespirt in the dictionary

  1. bespiced
  2. bespices
  3. bespicing
  4. bespies
  5. bespin
  6. bespirt
  7. bespirted
  8. bespirting
  9. bespirts
  10. bespit
  11. bespits

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bespirt (page history and authors); bespurt (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.

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