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beglossed en · ADJ · etymology 1

Etymology

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

Meanings

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

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beglossed en · ADJ · etymology 2

Etymology

From be- + gloss + -ed.

Meanings

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

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