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belepered en · ADJ

Etymology

From be- + leper + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable, obsolete) Infected with leprosy.
    • Thus vvill I pull thy hayre, and thus I'le drag / Thy luſt be-leapred body through the duſt. c. 1626 or 1629–1633 (first performance), [John Ford], ’Tis Pitty Shee’s a Whore […], London: […] Nicholas Okes for Richard Collins, […], published 1633, →OCLC, Act IV, signature H, verso: