[f. the adj. Not etymologically identical with OE. (ʓe)blodegian, -blodgian (in 3rd c. blodeke, with suffix -eg-, -ek-) which preceded in the same sense.]
1. trans. To make bloody by causing to bleed or by smearing with blood.
[a. 1000. Beowulf, 5378. He ʓeblodegod wearð sawul-driore.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 418. Ne mid breres ne ne biblodge [T. blodeke] hire sulf.]
1530. Palsgr., 458/1. This parker blodyeth his clothes.
1633. T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., xxi. (1821), 421. No man did bloody his sword more than his Lordship did that day.
1814. Cary, Dante (Chandos), 122. There came I, Pierc’d in the heart … And bloodying the plain.
1820. Southey, in Life & Corr. (1849), I. 4. The sword which was drawn (not bloodied, I hope) in this unlucky quarrel.
b. trans. and fig. To make blood-red; to stain with bloodshed.
1647. W. Browne, Polex., I. 197. His shield was black in many places, and the rest bloodied with the long tresse of a Comet.
1655. J. Jennings, Elise, 12. Nor the only instrument of these tragick businesses, the which bloodies the course of this History.
† 2. To exasperate; = BLOOD v. 4. Obs.
1633. T. Adams, Exp. 2 Peter i. 14. Saul, being so bloodied against David … became as unmerciful to himself.
