v. Obs. Forms: 3 biblod(e)ge, 4 biblodke, 7 bebloudy. [f. BE- 2 + BLOODY v.:—OE. bládeʓian, blódʓian, f. blodiʓ bloody; but the earlier forms point to an OE. *blódcian on type of ON. vbs in -ka.] trans. To make bloody.

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c. 1210.  Leg. Kath., 203. Of þat balefule blod al biblodked.

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c. 1220.  St. Marher., 3. Wið þe luðere … þat beoð al blodi biblodeget mid sunne.

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1580.  North, Plutarch (1676), 727. Antonius … did shew them his Gown all bebloodied.

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1647.  W. Browne, Polexander, II. 336. To bebloudy the Chronicle of their owne times.

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