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third-person singular simple present begems, present participle begemming, simple past and past participle begemmed
To adorn (as if) with gems. quotations examples
Our Grove we illuminate, glorious to see,With glittering Glow-worms begemming each Tree;
1748, Laetitia Pilkington, “Queen Mab to Pollio”, in Memoirs, Dublin, page 151
One […] threwThe wreath upon him, like an anadem,Which frozen tears instead of pearls begem;
1821, Percy B[ysshe] Shelley, Adonais: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, […], Pisa, Italy: […] Didot; reprinted London: Noel Douglas […], 1927, stanza 11
Time was, when a stage manager would spend hundreds of thousands of francs to begem with real emeralds the throne upon which a great actress would play the part of an empress.
1929, Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Scott Moncrieff, The Captive, New York: Modern Library, Part I, Chapter 1, p. 3