bespatter
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Befoam, be-fōm′, v.t. to bespatter or cover with foam.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
As Stars may without Pillories dispence, To slit some Ears for Forgeries of sense, Which Princes, Nobles, and the Fame of Men, Sought to bespatter by a worthless Pen.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore
A regular army of the "System's" votaries must have been out working like Trojans to stop my work, to discredit me, to bespatter me with its dirt.
From Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated by Lawson, Thomas William
And thus I have with much ado rid my hands of a great part of De Cros’s Rubbish, as far as it endeavours to bespatter Sir W. T. in his Morals and Intellectuals.
Howell has a poem “On some who, blending their brains together, plotted how to bespatter one of the Muses’ choicest sons, Sir William D’Avenant.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
