besprinkle

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besprinkle

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From Middle English bisprenklen, bisprenglen, bispringlen, equivalent to be- + sprinkle.

verb besprinkles · besprinkling · besprinkled

archaic, transitive To sprinkle. At this crisis the Sabine women, from the outrage on whom the war had arisen, with dishevelled hair and torn garments, the timidity natural to women being overcome by the sense of their calamities, were emboldened to fling themselves into the midst of the flying weapons, and, rushing across, to part

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@misc{besprinkle_2026,
  title = {besprinkle},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/besprinkle},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}