v. [f. BE- pref. 6 + MIST sb.]
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. Gilpin, 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, Suffer. Son of God, II. xxii. 595. The more sublime … his Doctrine was, the more they strove to darken and Be-mist it.
