Meanings
comparative more befilmed · superlative most befilmed
- archaicpoeticrareCovered with a film.
And oft without upon the stretching plain, / All else befilm’d with vapours and black night […]
1892, Thomas John Hardy, Asdrufel: A Soul's Episode, →OCLC2 more examples
So Seers on the Earth, through shaded eyes / Befilmed with sense, have seen dense shadows rise, […]
1854, Thomas Lake Harris, An Epic of the Starry Heaven, →OCLCThe first relativity spoken of, which makes our ideal of character (that very same which reverence surrounds with such sacredness) to be but a bespecked and befilmed third-hand copy of the eternal rights […]
1894, Joseph Herman Hertz, The Ethical System of James Martineau, →OCLC
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of befilm
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