Third person singular present tense; dresses or clothes someone.
Third person singular present tense of beclothe, with -s suffix.
The verb 'clothe' itself is already somewhat formal—we usually say 'dress' in modern English. So 'beclothes' sounds even more archaic and poetic, like something a Victorian novelist might write. This shows how older prefixes stacked on already-formal words created even more elaborate vocabulary!
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