v.; also 6–7 bedym, -dymn. [f. BE- + DIM.] trans. To make dim, cover with dimness, becloud.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, III. (Arb.), 84. Soomtyme owt it bolcketh from bulck clowds grimly bedimmed.
1610. Shaks., Temp., V. i. 41. I haue bedymn’d The Noone-tide Sun.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 75. The surface [is] soon bedimmed on exposure to the atmosphere.
b. esp. the eyesight.
1811. Byron, Curse Minerva, 86. Celestial tears bedimm’d her large blue eye.
1850. Blackie, Æschylus, II. 24. A tearful cloud My woeful sight bedims.
c. fig. the mind, mental vision, memory, etc.
[1566. Gascoigne, Jocasta, Wks. (1587), 85. Those raging storms of wrath That so bedym the eyes of thine intent.]
1816. J. Wilson, City of Plague, II. iv. 179. Nor can the shadow of this passing world Bedim thy holy spirit.
1817. Coleridge, Biog. Lit., 93. The detestable maxims … of the late French despotism had already bedimmed the public recollections of democratic phrensy.
1849. Hare, Par. Serm., II. 169. Fear so troubles and bedims and confounds the mind.
