Bedirt vs Begirt - What's the difference?
bedirt | begirt |
(obsolete) To surround or enclose
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, and now I had him every way encircled and begirt ; and having drawn him home to me, I kept him fast there, as if I had sought to unite bodies with him at that point. }}
* 1663 , Samuel Butler, Hudibras :
As verbs the difference between bedirt and begirt
is that bedirt is to cover or defile with dirt while begirt is (obsolete) to surround or enclose.begirt
English
Verb
- Who having round begirt the palace, / (As once a moth they do the gallows,) / As members gave the sign about, / Set up their throats with hideous shout.
- (Part 1, Canto 2, Lines 532-535)