bedim

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Bedim, be-dim′, v.t. to make dim or dark.—pa.p.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

Zoo let me zee noo darksome cloud Bedim to-day thy flow'ry sh'oud, But let en bloom on ev'ry spraÿ, Drough all the days o' zunny Maÿ.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by Barnes, William

The shades of night Bedim the Angels and the suns of Heaven: For man hath won the heart of the Most High, Within his new-created Paradise.

From Vondel's Lucifer by Vondel, Joost van den

Bedim the image not: oh, do not meet With cruelty the weak one offering up The dearest thing upon the face of earth.

From Fridthjof's Saga; a Norse romance by Holcomb, Martha A. Lyon

But thee may no such boisterous visitants Molest; may gentle breezes fan thy brow; And neither cloud conceal, nor misty air Bedim, the grand terraqueous spectacle, 10 From centre to circumference, unveiled!

From The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume IV (of 8) by Wordsworth, William