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besully

verb

Etymology

From Middle English bisulien, from Old English besylian (“to soil, stain”), equivalent to be- + sully.

  1. inherited from besylian — “to soil, stain”
  2. inherited from bisulien

Definitions

  1. To make sullied or soiled

    To make sullied or soiled; defile.

    • Let us avoid them as we would those emissaries of Satan whose glory is to wither piety, to blot out godliness from the ... who would extinguish the “Light of the Week”—who would besully the “Pearl of Days”—[…]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA