ENGLISH DICTIONARY

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

  1. 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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