begem

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Verb

begem (begems, present participle begemming; past and past participle begemmed)

1. To adorn (as if) with gems.
   • 1748, Laetitia Pilkington, “Queen Mab to Pollio” in Memoirs, Dublin, p. 151,

     Our Grove we illuminate, glorious to see,

     With glittering Glow-worms begemming each Tree;

   • 1821, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Adonaïs, stanza 11,

     One […] threw

     The wreath upon him, like an anadem,

     Which frozen tears instead of pearls begem;

   • 1929, C. K. Scott Moncrieff (translator), In Search of Lost Time by Marcel Proust, New York: Modern Library, Part I, Chapter 1, p. 3,

     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.

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