befilmed

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adjective

Covered with a film.

Scrabble 16

Meanings

adjectivebefilmed (comparative more befilmed, superlative most befilmed)

comparative more befilmed · superlative most befilmed

  1. 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, →OCLC
    2 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, →OCLC

    The 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
verb
  1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of befilm
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APA

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Chicago

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