besmittian

== Old English == === Etymology === By surface analysis, be- +‎ smittian === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /beˈsmit.ti.ɑn/ === Verb === besmittian to pollute, defile === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “be-smittian”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.