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Webster 1913 Edition


Beray

Be-ray′

(bē̍-rā′)
,
Verb.
T.
[Pref.
be
+
ray
to defile.]
To make foul; to soil; to defile.
[Obs.]
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Beray

BERA'Y

,
Verb.
T.
To make foul; to soil. [Not in use.]

Definition 2024


beray

beray

English

Verb

beray (third-person singular simple present berays, present participle beraying, simple past and past participle berayed)

  1. To make foul; befoul; soil.
    • 1652, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, John French (as J. F.) (translator), Three Books of Occult Philosophy,
      Also it is said, that if a woman take a needle, and beray it with dung, and then wrap it up in earth, in which the carkass [carcass] of a man was buryed [buried], and shall carry it about her in a cloth which was used at the funerall, that no man shall be able to ly [have sex] with her as long as she hath it about her.

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