v. [f. BE- 2 + MOUTH v.] trans. To mouth the praises of (a person); to talk grandiloquently, to declaim.
a. 1843. Southey, Nondescr., i. They heard the illustrious furbelow’d Heroically in Popean rhyme Tee-ti-tum’d, in Miltonic blank bemouth’d.
1882. F. Harrison, Crisis in Egypt, 6. The peace and good name of a great people are not to be bemouthed away by diplomatic brag.
