v. [f. BE- 5 + MONSTER.] trans.
1. To make monstrous or hideous; to deform.
1605. Shaks., Lear, IV. ii. 63. Be-monster not thy feature.
1608. Machin, Dumb Knt., III. i. Ile rather wed a sootie blackamore, Then her that hath bemonstered my pure soule.
2. To regard, treat as, or ‘call’ a monster.
1692. Christ Exalted, § 139. Yet he writes … like a Gentleman, not be-heriticking, not be-monstring Dr. Crisp.
1880. Swinburne, Birthd. Ode, 421. A man by men bemonstered.
