Befilmed
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Befilmed is an adjective meaning (poetic, archaic, rare) Covered with a film.
Meaning
(poetic, archaic, rare) Covered with a film.
More Meanings
- simple past and past participle of befilm
Example Sentences
And oft without upon the stretching plain, / All else befilm’d with vapours and black night […]
So Seers on the Earth, through shaded eyes / Befilmed with sense, have seen dense shadows rise, […]
The first relativity spoken of, which makes our ideal of character (that very same which reverence surrounds with such sacredness) to be but a bespecked and befilmed third-hand copy of the eternal rights […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include filmy, beeswinged, mossbound, enmossed, filmlike, coated.
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