rare. = prec.
1831. Western Carolinian, 23 May, 2/4. Byron, ‘stooping to touch the loftiest thought, as though it scarce deserved his verse,’ wrote ‘like very mad,’ to the great bespatterment of his paper and ruffled shirt, which by the way, we believe, he never wore.
1854. Sydney Morn. Herald, 5 Oct., 2/3. Quickly removing from shoe leather and upper vestments the consequent bespatterment.
1870. C. Smith, Syn. & Antonyms, Adulation … Ant. Traducement … bespatterment.
1888. Belfast News-Letter, 12 May, 7/6. There was no character too elevated to be beyond the bespatterment of his [O’Connell’s] Billingsgate.
