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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.
Definition 2024
beray
beray
English
Verb
beray (third-person singular simple present berays, present participle beraying, simple past and past participle berayed)
- 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.
- 1652, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, John French (as J. F.) (translator), Three Books of Occult Philosophy,