beglossed

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adjective

Rife with glosses

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Meanings

beglossed1

adjectivebeglossed (comparative more beglossed, superlative most beglossed)

comparative more beglossed · superlative most beglossed

  1. rareRife with glosses

    The preparatory course to Galen and Avincenna was Aristotle and Euclid, whose voluminously beglossed text must be defended as infallible.

    1891, Granville Stanley Hall, Carl Allanmore Murchison, Journal of Genetic Psychology, volume 1, page 45

beglossed2

adjectivebeglossed (comparative more beglossed, superlative most beglossed)

comparative more beglossed · superlative most beglossed

  1. Covered as with gloss or a glossy substance

    Or smaller kinds, as if beglossed with dew Shining dim-powdered with a downy blue, That on weak tendrils lowly creeping grow […]

    1920, John Clare, Edmund Blunden, Alan Porter, John Clare: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript, page 74

Origin

beglossed · adjective

  1. Middle Englishbiglosen
  2. Middle English*biglosed
  3. Englishbeglossed

From Middle English *biglosed, past participle of Middle English biglosen, equivalent to be- + gloss + -ed.

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beglossed · adjective

From be- + gloss + -ed.

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Chicago

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