ppl. a. [f. BE- 7 + SPECTACLES.] Having spectacles on.

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1742.  Jarvis, Quix., II. II. xvi. (D.). A white-veiled, lank, and bespectacled duenna.

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1804.  Cobbett’s Weekly Pol. Reg., 5 May, 673. I could not help, however, feeling for the aukwardness with which these be-wigged and be-spectacled gentlemen must in the first instance enter on the duties of their office.——

        To rise—perchance to fall—aye there’s the rub.
Sculls crack’d! crush’d ribs! there’s the respect, which makes
The clerk, all trembling, in some corner lurk;
And shun the dread ascent——

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1848.  J. H. Newman, Loss & Gain, 60. He was a little, prim, smirking, bespectacled man.

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