English

Verb

besleep ‎(third-person singular simple present besleeps, present participle besleeping, simple past and past participle beslept)

1. (transitive, intransitive, reflexive) To sleep; have a sleep; sleep about; sleep with.
   • 1859, George Gilfillan, The poets and poetry of the Bible:

     Others are going about our streets, like well-meaning but beslept watchmen, calling the hours of midnight, while the morning is paling their lanterns.

   • 1926, Blanche Colton Williams, Best American stories:

     He still beslept himself as we passed; he being a slumbersome person.

   • 1973, Georg Peter Landmann, Stefan George in fremden Sprachen:

     He knows the last but whom the god beslept.