[f. BE- 1 + PAINT v.] trans. To paint over, cover, or smear with paint or paintings; to paint obtrusively; to color, tinge.
c. 1555. Harpsfield, Divorce of Hen. VIII. (1878), 282. The walls all bepainted … with places of holy Scripture.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 12 b. Black, yet be painted with other colours.
1592. Shaks., Rom. & Jul., II. ii. 86. Else would a maiden blush bepaint my cheeke.
1647. Bp. Corbet, Poems (1807), 14. Their colledges were new be-painted.
1831. Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. vii. Buff-belts, complicated chains … have been bepainted in Modern Romance.
Hence Bepainted ppl. a.
1592. Shaks., Ven. & Ad., 901. Whose frothy mouth, bepainted all with red.
1858. Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., II. VI. vi. 96. A bepainted, beribanded, insulting Playactor Majesty.
