What does bespate mean?
Bespate means (obsolete) That has been spit upon..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(obsolete) That has been spit upon..
No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
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Bespate means (obsolete) That has been spit upon..
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No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.
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