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beslather en · VERB

Etymology

From be- (“about, all over”) + slather.

Meanings

1. (rare, transitive) To slather profusely or all over.
   • The writer of said article goes into a panegyric, and beslathers Mr. Taft all over with fulsome praise as if he had said something really worth while, but is silent on the fact that William H. is willing for the great public health interest — [...] 1910, Ferdinand Eugene Daniel, Medical Insurance:
   • The Berbers, taking possession of the city in the spring of 1013, mercilessly beslathered the “Ornament of the World” with gore. 2009, Tom Holland, The Forge of Christendom:
   • Such the royalist beslathers with laudation nigh divine. 1890, George Henry Martin, A Song for My Son:

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