pa. pple. Obs. Forms: 1 bedofen, 6 Sc. bedoif, bedowyn, -ovin. [:OE. bedofen, pa. pple. of bedúfan to submerge, f. BE- + dúfan to dive, sink.] Immersed, plunged.
a. 1000. Ælfric, Hom., II. 472. Bedofen on deoppre nytennysse.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, V. vi. 125. All his membris in mude and dung bedoif. Ibid., VII. Prol. 60. Bedovin in donkis deyp was every syk.