v. [f. BE- 2 + MAUL v.] trans. To maul thoroughly.
1620. Shelton, Quix., IV. xxii. 179 (R.). So the poor soul [Sancho] was sore bruised and bemauled.
1761. Sterne, Tr. Shandy (1802), IV. xxvii. 120. To snatch the cudgels … to bemaul Yorick to some purpose.
1846. Hawthorne, Mosses, I. vi. 155. Bemauled as the poor fellow had been.
