v. Obs. Also 7 bedurt. [f. BE- + DIRT.] trans. To cover or defile with dirt; fig. ‘to throw dirt at,’ to vilify.

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1622.  Mabbe, trans. Aleman’s Guzman d’Alf., II. 56. My Master knew I was all bedurted.

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1673.  Penn, Life, Wks. 1782, I. 39. An Independent and an Anabaptist … have lately bedirted us in three discourses.

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1684.  Contempl. State of Man, I. ix. (1699), 98. Be dirted and defiled with abominable … crimes.

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  Hence Bedirted, Bedirten (Sc.) ppl. a.

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1528.  A. Dalaber, Narr., in Froude, Hist. Eng. (1856), II. 56. All bedirted as I was.

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a. 1500.  Peebles to Play (1862), 10. She … all bedirten drew him out.

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1721.  Strype, Eccl. Mem., I. I. xxii. 160. A long gown … all bedirted like, and sloven.

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