bedream
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bedream (third-person singular simple present bedreams, present participle bedreaming, simple past and past participle bedreamt or bedreamed)
- (transitive) To dream about; bestow with dreams or impart dreams unto.
- 1840, George Darley, Thomas à Becket: A Dramatic Chronicle in Five Acts:
- O learned John, but thou art grown fantastic
As a romancer! thou art quite bedream'd […]
- 1901, Morrison Heady, The Double Night and Other Poems:
- I had only to turn it, the soul's own image to see there: — Beauty that might bedream the sleep of a youthful immortal! […]
- 1978, Ralph Friedman, Tracking Down Oregon:
- In the last verse there is hope — a prayer of hope — that in his new-found liberation he will create again: But lo, in this pathway of duty, To the past, I, at least, can be true, And the mists that bedream it with beauty […]