beslather

present singular third person beslathers · participle present beslathering · participle past beslathered · past beslathered

1. raretransitiveTo slather profusely or all over.

   Such the royalist beslathers with laudation nigh divine.

   1890, George Henry Martin, A Song for My Son

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   The writer of said article goes into a panegyric, and beslathers Mr. Taft all over with fulsome praise as if he had said something really worth while, but is silent on the fact that William H. is willing for the great public health interest — [...]

   1910, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, Medical Insurance

   The Berbers, taking possession of the city in the spring of 1013, mercilessly beslathered the “Ornament of the World” with gore.

   2009, Tom Holland, The Forge of Christendom