See bespatter in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance."
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"(transitive) To spatter or cover with something; sprinkle with anything liquid, or with any wet or adhesive substance."
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"text": "Beſides, he hath not been afraid to rail on you, my Lord, who are now appointed to be his Judge, calling you an ungodly Villain, with many other ſuch like vilifying terms, with which he hath beſpattered most of the Gentry of our Town.",
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