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bespurting

bespurting is the present participle and gerund 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

Questions about bespurting

What is bespurting the present participle and gerund of?
Bespurting is the present participle and gerund of bespurt.

Words near bespurting in the dictionary

  1. besprinkling
  2. bespue
  3. bespurred
  4. bespurt
  5. bespurted
  6. bespurting
  7. bespurts
  8. bespy
  9. bespying
  10. besra
  11. besras

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