bedaub

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Demosthenes describes the mother of Æschines as a dabbler in mysteries, and tells how Æschines used to assist her by helping to bedaub the initiate with clay and bran.

From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin

"Yes, but you must not bedaub the walls," said Mother Carsten.

From Problematic Characters A Novel by Spielhagen, Friedrich

Does any one bedaub his friends with flattery?

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us

Our pessimist frauds and the Ibsensite pack Will groan as they thickly bedaub it in black.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 by Various

Both Greeks and savages employ the bull-roarer, both bedaub the initiated with dirt or with white paint or chalk. 

From Custom and Myth by Lang, Andrew