[f. BE- 5 + SAINT.] trans. To make a saint of, canonize.
a. 1603. T. Cartwright, Confut. Rhem. N. T. (1618), 658. Thomas Aquinas, whom they haue besainted unto the ninth degree.
1646. J. Hall, Poems, I. 3. [If you] besaint Old Jesabel for shewing how to paint.
1680. Refl. Libel on Curse-ye-Meroz, 35. Another sort of People would have almost canoniz’d and besainted the Preacher.
