v. Also 6 besprite. [f. BE- 5 + SPIRIT.] trans. a. To possess with a (familiar) spirit. b. To fill or endow with spirit.
1574. Hellowes, Gueuara’s Ep. (1577), 55. The letter had no spirit in it: but he aduised me, that he which wrote it should be beesprited.
1862. D. Simon, trans. Dorner’s Pers. Christ, I. (1875), II. 399. To reduce the incarnation to a … bespiriting of this man.
