bedisen

present singular third person bedisens · participle present bedisening · participle past bedisened · past bedisened

1. alternativeAlternative spelling of bedizen.

   Slinger brast aght o'th' door like a roarin lion,—but he wor sooin collard, an' he wor soa bedisend with soft cake an' puttaty pillins at his own mother could'nt ha owned him.

   Slinger burst [?] out of the door like a roaring lion,—but he was soon collared, and he was so bedisened with soft cake and potato peelings as his own mother couldn't have owned him.

   1876, John Hartley, “Ther’s a Mule i’ th’ Garden. A Christmas Story.”, in Yorksher Puddin’. A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: William Nicholson and Sons; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.; […], →OCLC, page 51

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   They would rather see the rising generation exhibit a partiality for the tawdry tinsel in which a false philosophy bedisens its votaries, than find them intent only on the splendours of an unseen, and, to their low and sceptical minds, unreal state of existence.

   1838 October, “Art[icle]. III.—The System of National Education in Ireland;—Its Principles and Practice. By J. C. Colquhoun, Esq,, M.P. Cheltenham: Wright. 1838. [book review]”, in The Church of England Quarterly Review, volume IV, number VIII, London: William Pickering, […], →OCLC, page 411

   I'm thinking you're too fine for the like of me, Shawn Keogh of Killakeen, and let you go off till you'd find a radiant lady with droves of bullocks on the plains of Meath, and herself bedisened in the diamond jewelleries of Pharaoh's ma.

   1907 January 26 (first performance), J[ohn] M[illington] Synge, “The Playboy of the Western World”, in Aidan Arrowsmith, editor, The Complete Works of J. M. Synge: Plays, Prose and Poetry (Wordsworth Poetry Library), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, published 2008, →ISBN, Act III, page 114