bedisenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

bedisen (third-person singular simple present bedisens, present participle bedisening, simple past and past participle bedisened)

1. Alternative spelling of bedizen
   • 1838 October, “Art[icle]. III.—The System of National Education in Ireland;—Its Principles and Practice. By J. C. Colquhoun, Esq,, M.P. Cheltenham: Wright. 1838. [book review]”, in The Church of England Quarterly Review, volume IV, number VIII, London: William Pickering, […], →OCLC, page 411:

     They would rather see the rising generation exhibit a partiality for the tawdry tinsel in which a false philosophy bedisens its votaries, than find them intent only on the splendours of an unseen, and, to their low and sceptical minds, unreal state of existence.

   • 1876, John Hartley, “Ther’s a Mule i’ th’ Garden. A Christmas Story.”, in Yorksher Puddin’. A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories, Wakefield, West Yorkshire: William Nicholson and Sons; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.;  […], →OCLC, page 51:

     Slinger brast aght o'th' door like a roarin lion,—but he wor sooin collard, an' he wor soa bedisend with soft cake an' puttaty pillins at his own mother could'nt ha owned him.

     Slinger burst [?] out of the door like a roaring lion,—but he was soon collared, and he was so bedisened with soft cake and potato peelings as his own mother couldn't have owned him.

   • 1907 January 26 (first performance), J[ohn] M[illington] Synge, “The Playboy of the Western World”, in Aidan Arrowsmith, editor, The Complete Works of J. M. Synge: Plays, Prose and Poetry (Wordsworth Poetry Library), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, published 2008, →ISBN, Act III, page 114:

     I'm thinking you're too fine for the like of me, Shawn Keogh of Killakeen, and let you go off till you'd find a radiant lady with droves of bullocks on the plains of Meath, and herself bedisened in the diamond jewelleries of Pharaoh's ma.