"befilm" meaning in English

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      "form": "befilms",
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          "ref": "1852, Caroline Matilda Kirkland, The Evening Book: Or, Fireside Talk on Morals and Manners, with Sketches of Western Life, →OCLC",
          "text": "As the rod furnishes the only royal road to learning, so the world's neglect offers the man who has not patience and courage for the beaten track, a short-cut to common sense; happy if egotism have not so befilmed his mental sight, that the iron finger points in vain the upward path!",
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          "ref": "1904 February, “Divine Immanence”, in Benjamin Orange Flower, editor, The Arena, volume 31, number 2",
          "text": "Every honest effort to be and do right develops sight. Every determination to be and do wrong, befilms it. The voice of the upper Universe cries \"be clean.\"",
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          "ref": "1914, Thomas Sturge Moore, The Sea Is Kind",
          "text": "Her rose sways, lifts from where she dropped it, / Enlarges, floats as though ripples propped it; / While visibly as on chill air breathing / Fragrance transforms to a rosy mist; / Which halo-sphere befilms with wreathing / Trails of pink and amethyst.",
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        "To cover with a film."
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        "(poetic, archaic, rare) To cover with a film."
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  "word": "befilm"
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          "text": "As the rod furnishes the only royal road to learning, so the world's neglect offers the man who has not patience and courage for the beaten track, a short-cut to common sense; happy if egotism have not so befilmed his mental sight, that the iron finger points in vain the upward path!",
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