beglossed

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English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *biglosed, past participle of Middle English biglosen, equivalent to be- +‎ gloss +‎ -ed.

Adjective

beglossed (comparative more beglossed, superlative most beglossed)

  1. (rare) Rife with glosses
    • 1891, Granville Stanley Hall, Carl Allanmore Murchison, Journal of Genetic Psychology, volume 1, page 45:
      The preparatory course to Galen and Avincenna was Aristotle and Euclid, whose voluminously beglossed text must be defended as infallible.

Etymology 2

From be- +‎ gloss +‎ -ed.

Adjective

beglossed (comparative more beglossed, superlative most beglossed)

  1. Covered as with gloss or a glossy substance
    • 1920, John Clare, Edmund Blunden, Alan Porter, John Clare: Poems Chiefly from Manuscript, page 74:
      Or smaller kinds, as if beglossed with dew
      Shining dim-powdered with a downy blue,
      That on weak tendrils lowly creeping grow