bemist, v.
(bɪˈmɪst)
[f. be- prefix 6 + mist n.]
1. trans. To overtake with, or involve in mist; fig. to confuse the senses of, bepuzzle, bewilder.
| 1609 Holland Amm. Marcell Annot. D ij b, The Greekes..were bemisted and overcast with darknesse. 1627 Feltham Resolves ii. iv. Wks. (1677) 166 How can that Judg walk right, that is bemisted in his way? 1677 Gale Crt. Gentiles II. iii. Pref., God bemisted the degenerate mindes of those proud Sophistes. 1864 Sat. Rev. 278/2 Many a mountain climber..has been benighted or bemisted. |
2. To cover or obscure (a thing) with, or as with, mist; to becloud, dim.
| 1598 E. Guilpin Skial. (1878) 36 He is the deuill, Brightly accoustred to bemist his euill. 1630 T. Westcote Devon. (1845) 453 Antiquities are often bemisted, and leave their surveyor perplexed. 1720 Welton Suff. Son of God II. xxii. 595 The more sublime..his Doctrine was, the more they strove to darken and Be-mist it. |