ppl. a. [f. BE- 1 + TATTER v.] All in tatters, ragged.
1618. Wither, Motto, Wks. (1633), 553. The beggarliest And most betattered Pesant.
a. 1704. T. Brown, Wks. (1760), I. 240 (D.). She brought a gown … bepatch’d and betatter’d.
