begild

English

Etymology

be- +‎ gild

Verb

begild (third-person singular simple present begilds, present participle begilding, simple past and past participle begilded or begilt)

  1. (transitive) To gild; to cover with gold.
    • a. 1638 (date written)​, Benjamin Jonson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Under-woods. Consisting of Divers Poems. (please specify the poem)”, in The Workes of Benjamin Jonson. The Second Volume. […] (Second Folio), London: […] Richard Meighen, published 1640, →OCLC:
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for begild in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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