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Begold vs Begod - What's the difference?

begold | begod |

As verbs the difference between begold and begod

is that begold is to cover with or as with gold while begod is to exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.

begold

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To cover with or as with gold.
  • *1953 , Edward Morgan Forster, The Hill of Devi :
    • I wore a long dressing gown of palish purple spattered with gold flowers and beneath it a green waistcoat, also begolded , and on my head a fantastic headdress of red and gold; also white trousers; [...]
  • To make like gold; golden.
  • *1907 , John Bonner, George William Curtis, Henry Mills Alden, Harper's weekly :
    • [...] as the mellowed north winds tone forth their vestal hymns upon rustling leaf-keys; sunsets that bepurple the azure; sunrises that begold the horizon; moonlights that besilver the river? Who would not have of these?

    Synonyms

    * (cover with gold) begild, gild

    begod

    English

    Verb

  • (obsolete) To exalt to the dignity of a god; to deify.
    • Begodded saints. — South.
    (Webster 1913)