Sprinkle vs Besprinkle - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between sprinkle and besprinkle

is that sprinkle is (lb) to cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance) while besprinkle is (archaic) to sprinkle with.

As a noun sprinkle

is a light covering with a sprinkled substance.

sprinkle

English

Verb

(sprinkl)

(lb) To cause (a substance) to fall in fine drops (for a liquid substance) or small pieces (for a solid substance).

*(Bible), (w) xiv. 16

*:And the priest shallsprinkle of the oil with his finger seven times before the Lord.

*:At twilight in the summeron the floor.

(lb) To cover (an object) by sprinkling a substance on to it.

*2005 , Justus Roux, Who's Your Daddy? , page 66:

*:Most of the passengers watched from the enclosed promenade deck, but Sandra found her way to the higher, open promenade where she shivered and watched the city lights fade and the stars sprinkle themselves across a dark blue velvet sky.

(lb) To drip in fine drops, sometimes sporadically.

(lb) To baptize by the application of a few drops, or a small quantity, of water; hence, to cleanse; to purify.

*(Bible), (w) x. 22

*:having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience

Quotations

* 1893 , Edward F. Bigelow (editor and publisher), The Observer: a Medium of Interchange of Observations for all Students and Lovers of Nature , volume IV, number 4, page 114: *: There is no more beautiful object in the still and shady aisles of the wood than a great patch of the deep green hairy cap moss studded and starred by these little roses that are often scattered over it as thickly as the stars sprinkle the sky. * April 26th, 1899', ''Memorial Day Oration'' of General P. McGlashan, printed in '''1902 in ''Addresses delivered before the Confederate Veterans Association of Savannah by that association: *: As I laid him back on the litter he threw out his arms and clasped me around my neck, drew me towards him and kissed me, saying: "Colonel, I love you." [...] Unnumbered instances like this might be recounted did the time permit it. They sprinkle the whole four years as the stars sprinkle the sky. * 2010 , Donald E. MacKay, Love Is Stronger Than Death , page 91: *: [...] she will remember his words and gaze at the stars. One dark night when the stars sprinkle the heavens, she would call out to the stars and ask the same questions her benefactor had asked; perhaps she will be favored with answers.

Derived terms

* sprinkler

Noun

(en noun)

A light covering with a sprinkled substance.

He decorated the Christmas card with a sprinkle of glitter.

A light rain shower.

Synonyms

* (light covering with a sprinkled substance) sprinkling

Derived terms

* sugar sprinkles

besprinkle

English

Verb

(besprinkl)

(archaic) to sprinkle with

*{{quote-book, year=1904, author=John Henry Freese, Alfred John Church, and William Jackson Brodribb, title=Roman History, Books I-III, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=At this crisis the Sabine women, from the outrage on whom the war had arisen, with dishevelled hair and torn garments, the timidity natural to women being overcome by the sense of their calamities, were emboldened to fling themselves into the midst of the flying weapons, and, rushing across, to part the incensed combatants and assuage their wrath: imploring their fathers on the one hand and their husbands on the other, as fathers-in-law and sons-in-law, not to besprinkle themselves with impious blood, nor to fix the stain of murder on their offspring, the one side on their grandchildren, the other on their children. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1871, author=Marc Monnier, title=The Wonders of Pompeii, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=We could still recognize the troughs that served for the manipulation of the bread, and the oven, the arch of which is intact, with the cavity that retained the ashes, the besprinkle the crust and make it shiny, and, finally, the triple-flued pipe that carried off the smoke--an excellent system revealed by the Pompeian excavations and successfully imitated since then. }}