befilm
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befilm (third-person singular simple present befilms, present participle befilming, simple past and past participle befilmed)
- (poetic, archaic, rare) To cover with a film.
- 1852, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, The Evening Book: Or, Fireside Talk on Morals and Manners, with Sketches of Western Life, →OCLC:
- As the rod furnishes the only royal road to learning, so the world's neglect offers the man who has not patience and courage for the beaten track, a short-cut to common sense; happy if egotism have not so befilmed his mental sight, that the iron finger points in vain the upward path!
- 1904 February, “Divine Immanence”, in Benjamin Orange Flower, editor, The Arena, volume 31, number 2:
- Every honest effort to be and do right develops sight. Every determination to be and do wrong, befilms it. The voice of the upper Universe cries "be clean."
- 1914, Thomas Sturge Moore, The Sea Is Kind:
- Her rose sways, lifts from where she dropped it, / Enlarges, floats as though ripples propped it; / While visibly as on chill air breathing / Fragrance transforms to a rosy mist; / Which halo-sphere befilms with wreathing / Trails of pink and amethyst.