Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

beglossed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: be-glossed
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Rife with glosses

adj

Covered as with gloss or a glossy substance

Example Sentences

"The preparatory course to Galen and Avincenna was Aristotle and Euclid, whose voluminously beglossed text must be defended as infallible."
"Or smaller kinds, as if beglossed with dew Shining dim-powdered with a downy blue, That on weak tendrils lowly creeping grow […]"

Etymology

From Middle English *biglosed, past participle of Middle English biglosen, equivalent to be- + gloss + -ed.

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: *biglosed, biglosen

Inflected Forms

more beglossed (comparative) most beglossed (superlative)

Questions

What does beglossed mean?: Rife with glosses
Where does beglossed come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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