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English
Etymology
From be- + mist.
Verb
bemist (third-person singular simple present bemists, present participle bemisting, simple past and past participle bemisted)
- (transitive) To cover or envelop with mist, or as with mist.
1959, International Agricultural Aviation Centre, European Agricultural Aviation Centre, The Hague, Agricultural aviation: Volumes 1-6:For destroying Gypsy Moth caterpillars in the forests of Yugoslavia, the method of bemisting from the aeroplane with DDT preparations has been applied so far... In the first place, among other defects, the residual effect of the poison in bemisting is very short [...]
2001, James Ferguson, Exposition of Paul's Epistles:There are usually some within the visible church, who, being bemisted with error, do not come up to give thorough assent unto all divine truths...