bebathe
verb/bɪˈbeɪð/
Etymology From Middle English *bebathen (attested as bebathed), from Old English bebaþian, bibaþian (“to bathe, wash”), equivalent to be- (“all over, completely”) + bathe.
- […] and everyone with a dagger in their hand, (which dagger they call a creese, and is as sharp as a razor) stab themselves to the heart, and with their hands all do bebathe themselves in their own blood, and falling grovelling on their faces so end their days.1880, Richard Hakluyt, Edward John Payne, Voyages of the Elizabethan Seamen to America: