bespurt

English

Alternative forms

• bespirt

Etymology

be- +‎ spurt

Verb

bespurt (third-person singular simple present bespurts, present participle bespurting, simple past and past participle bespurted)

1. (obsolete) To spurt on or over; to sprinkle.
   • 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon the Remonstrants Defence against Smectymnuus; republished in A Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], Amsterdam [actually London: s.n.], 1698, →OCLC:

     send home his haughtiness well bespurted with his own holy water

References

• “bespurt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.