v. [f. BE- 2 and 4 + SCRIBBLE v.] Hence Bescribbled ppl. a.
1. trans. To write in a scrawling hand, to scribble.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneid, III. (Arb.), 84. Her prophecyes in greene leaues nicelye bescribled.
1840. T. Hook, Fitzherb., III. xvii. 333. The superscription was so bescribbled that even Miss Bartley’s sidelong glance could decipher nothing.
2. To scribble about; to scribble on. Also fig.
1643. Milton, Divorce, II. xii. Wks. (1851), 93. That power … [he] hath improperly usurpt into his Court-leet, and bescribbl’d with a thousand trifling impertinencies.
1808. W. Irving, Salmag., ii. (1860), 36. He be-scribbled more paper than would serve the theatre for snow-storms a whole season.
