v. [f. BE- + SPOUT v.] trans. To besprinkle by spouting. fig. a. To utter or recite with pompous elocution. b. To recite to, to plague with oratory.

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1575.  Turberv., Falconrie, 84. Take wine and water and therewith bespout hir well with your mouth.

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1828.  Blackw. Mag., XXIV. 591. It has been bespouted, bequoted, and beparodied.

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1857.  Carlyle, Misc., IV. 138. Woe for the age, woe for the man, quack-ridden, bespeeched, bespouted.

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