ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Spangled or studded as with stars.

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c. 1655.  Mennis, Oberon’s Appar., in Arb., Garner, I. 18. A rich mantle … Bestarred over with a few Diamond drops of morning dew.

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1876.  Black, Madcap Violet, xlvi. 390. Sheltered woods, bestarred with anemones.

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  2.  Decorated with the star of an order.

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1860.  All Y. Round, No. 52. 34. The bestarred,… jewelled,… throng.

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1861.  Sala, Tw. round Clock, 298. A crowd of … bestarred and be-ribboned ministers.

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  3.  Ill-bestarred, for the more usual ill-starred.

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a. 1834.  Coleridge, Charac. Alas poor Bird! and ill-bestarred.

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