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English
Etymology
From be- + lull.
Verb
belull (third-person singular simple present belulls, present participle belulling, simple past and past participle belulled)
- (transitive) To lull about; lull all over; lull completely.
1876, Herman Melville, “Canto XVII”, in Walter E. Bezanson, editor, Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land , New York, N.Y.: Hendricks House, published 1960, →OCLC, part I (Jerusalem), page 56, lines 176–183:Hebrew the profile, every line; / But as in haven fringed with palm, / Which Indian reefs embay from harm, / Belulled as in the vase the wine— / Red budded corals in remove, / Peep coy through quietudes above; […]
1992, Joan Larsen Klein, Daughters, wives, and widows:[…] the noon with a luscious repast, the afternoon with a play or a pallet repose, the evening with a wanton consort, accoutred with a rear-banket, to belull the abused soul with the sleep of an incessant surfeit.