bemire

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To soil with mud or a similar substance.

   • The Minde, constrain’d the Bodies want to feele, Makes Salves of Earth the Bodies hurt to heale, Which doe the Mind bemire with thoughts vnfitt;
   • Ah me! while I fond wretch indulge my Dreams, Winds blast my Flow’rs, and Boars bemire my Streams.
2. 2

   To immerse or trap in mire.

   • In two of the morasses there was not depth sufficient to have bemired an animal of such magnitude and strength […]
   • I saw your horse bemired, and put him from his agony; which, by my sooth! an ye had been a more merciful rider, ye had done yourself.
3. 3

   To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace

   To stain or mar, as with infamy or disgrace; to tarnish; to sully.

   • "We have to stop him at any cost. That is the way our Cause gets bemired. Some villain who knows nothing about it comes into it for money and so the labours of the honest mediums get discounted."

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