v. [f. BE- 2 + PRAISE v.] trans. To laud or praise greatly or to excess.
1774. Goldsmith, Retal., 118. How did Grub-street re-echo the shouts that you raised when he was be-Roscius’d and you were bepraised.
1824. Bentham, Fallacies, Wks. 1843, II. 399. The same man who bepraises you when dead.
Hence Bepraised ppl. a.; Bepraisement; Bepraiser.
1843. Miall, Nonconf., III. 457. Contented, submissive and bepraised agriculturalists.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., III. 113. The … puffing bepraisement of the Court Journal. Ibid., II. 78. Ruin would fall not only upon the head of the pseudo-poet, but his shivering bepraisers.
