befilmed

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English

Adjective

befilmed (comparative more befilmed, superlative most befilmed)

  1. (poetic, archaic, rare) Covered with a film.
    • 1854, Thomas Lake Harris, An Epic of the Starry Heaven, →OCLC:
      So Seers on the Earth, through shaded eyes / Befilmed with sense, have seen dense shadows rise, […]
    • 1892, Thomas John Hardy, Asdrufel: A Soul's Episode, →OCLC:
      And oft without upon the stretching plain, / All else befilm’d with vapours and black night […]
    • 1894, Joseph Herman Hertz, The Ethical System of James Martineau, →OCLC:
      The first relativity spoken of, which makes our ideal of character (that very same which reverence surrounds with such sacredness) to be but a bespecked and befilmed third-hand copy of the eternal rights […]

Verb

befilmed

  1. simple past and past participle of befilm
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