bescribble, v.
(bɪˈskrɪb(ə)l)
[f. be- 2 and 4 + scribble v.]
Hence beˈscribbled ppl. a.
1. trans. To write in a scrawling hand, to scribble.
| 1583 Stanyhurst æneid iii. (Arb.) 84 Her prophecyes in greene leaues nicelye bescribled. 1840 T. Hook Fitzherb. III. xvii. 333 The superscription was so bescribbled that even Miss Bartley's sidelong glance could decipher nothing. |
2. To scribble about; to scribble on. Also fig.
| 1643 Milton Divorce ii. xii. Wks. (1851) 93 That power..[he] hath improperly usurpt into his Court-leet, and bescribbl'd with a thousand trifling impertinencies. 1808 W. Irving Salmag. ii. (1860) 36 He be-scribbled more paper than would serve the theatre for snow-storms a whole season. |