Blemish, vb., to injure or impair the beauty of, to disfigure: “beauty --ed once 's for ever lost,” Pilgr. 179. you should not b. it (your beauty) R3 I, 2, 128. “I shall give thee thy deserving, and b. Caesar's triumph,” Ant. IV, 12, 33. In a moral sense, == to stain, to dishonour: “in this --ed fort,” Lucr. 1175. “a gross and foolish sire --ed his gracious dam,” Wint. III, 2, 199. R2 II, 1, 293. R3 III, 7, 122. IV, 4, 370. Ant. I, 4, 23.
Shakespeare Lexicon. Alexander Schmidt. Berlin. Georg Reimer. 1902.
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