v. [f. BE- + CROSS.] trans. To mark with the sign of the cross; to surround or decorate with crosses. Hence Becrossed ppl. a.

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1565.  Calfhill, Answ. Treat. Crosse (1846), 79. Your spiritual fathers, all to becrossed about their beds.

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1581.  in Confer., IV. (1584), Z iij. Campion becrossed himselfe on the forehead.

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1799.  W. Taylor, Month. Mag., VII. 139. A becross’d, beblest … bag of holy sackcloth.

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1880.  Blackw. Mag., Feb., 243. Officers much be-medalled and much be-crossed.

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