ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
1. Canonized, credited with sanctity.
1615. Corbet, Poems (1807), 14. Their colledges were new be-painted, Their founders eke were new be-sainted.
1711. E. Ward, Vulgus Brit., I. 9. Most were of some Faults attainted, Whether bedevil’d or besainted.
2. Peopled with or haunted by saints.
1865. E. Burritt, Walk to Land’s End, 299. Popular traditions in this most profusely be-sainted and be-spirited county.
