v. Obs. [f. BE- pref. 5 + LEPER.] trans. To afflict with, or as with, leprosy. Hence Belepered ppl. a.
c. 1623. Fletcher, Laws Candy, V. i. 66. Beleapred with the Curse Of foule ingratitude.
1633. Ford, ’Tis Pity, IV. iii. (1839), 41. Thy lust beleper’d body.
1649. Milton, Eikon., xiv. Wks. (1851), 449. Impuritie and Church revenue rushing in, corrupted and beleper’d all the Clergie.
