bemonster

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   To make monstrous or like a monster

   To make monstrous or like a monster; make hideous; deform.

   • Thou changed and self-cover’d thing, for shame! Bemonster not thy feature!
   • A man by men bemonstered, but by love Watched with blind eyes as of a wakeful dove [alluding to the novel The Man Who Laughs by Victor Hugo]
2. 2

   To fill or cover with monsters.

   • 1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, Edinburgh: George Goldie, 2nd edition, 1814, Canto 4, Stanza 21, p. 119, So leap’d the men, half-sepulchred in sack, Up-swinging, with their shapes be-monstring sky,
   • It was one of the League’s rare open exhibitions, and nonmembers in ordinary dress thronged among the cartoon-colored pavilions, the hedges of bemonstered appliqué banners, and the blazons strung on wire between trees.
3. 3

   To regard or treat (someone) as a monster

   To regard or treat (someone) as a monster; to call (someone) a monster.

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