begem
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begem (third-person singular simple present begems, present participle begemming, simple past and past participle begemmed)
- To adorn (as if) with gems.
- 1748, Laetitia Pilkington, “Queen Mab to Pollio”, in Memoirs[1], Dublin, page 151:
- Our Grove we illuminate, glorious to see,
With glittering Glow-worms begemming each Tree;
- 1821, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, […], Pisa, Italy: […] Didot; reprinted London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, →OCLC, stanza 11:
- One […] threw
The wreath upon him, like an anadem,
Which frozen tears instead of pearls begem;
- 1929, Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, The Captive[2], New York: Modern Library, Part I, Chapter 1, p. 3:
- Time was, when a stage manager would spend hundreds of thousands of francs to begem with real emeralds the throne upon which a great actress would play the part of an empress.