bebathe
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English *bebathen (attested as bebathed), from Old English bebaþian, bibaþian (“to bathe, wash”), equivalent to be- (“all over, completely”) + bathe.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
bebathe (third-person singular simple present bebathes, present participle bebathing, simple past and past participle bebathed)
- (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To bathe all over; bathe completely; suffuse.
- 1880, Richard Hakluyt, Edward John Payne, Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America:
- […] and everyone with a dagger in their hand, (which dagger they call a creese, and is as sharp as a razor) stab themselves to the heart, and with their hands all do bebathe themselves in their own blood, and falling grovelling on their faces so end their days.