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stilted, ppl. a.|ˈstɪltɪd|
[f. stilt n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Furnished with or having stilts (in quot. 1615, crutches); raised artificially as on stilts.
1615R. Brathwait Loves Labyrinth 27 Decrepit age, stilted for want of strength. 1742Young Nt. Th. vi. 355 Where dwarfs are often stilted, and betray A littleness of soul by worlds o'er-run, And nations laid in blood.
b. (a) Supported on props or posts so as to be raised above the ground. (b) Arch. Raised above the general level by a course of masonry beneath, as an arch, vault, or other structure.
1820Blackw. Mag. VIII. 31 note, The appearance of these stilted ricks..gives a sort of peculiarity to the landscape. 1835R. Willis Archit. Mid. Ages vii. 78 All the arches are pointed, except the central transverse rib.., which is semi-circular and stilted. 1883I. L. Bishop Golden Chersonese 168 It is a genuine Malay house on stilts... This stilted house is the barrack of eleven Malay constables. 1895Jrnl. R. Inst. Brit. Architects 14 Mar. 347 Corinthian capitals, supporting stilted pointed arches.
c. Of animals, esp. birds: Having very long slender legs resembling stilts.
1869–73T. R. Jones Cassell's Bk. Birds II. 162 The Stilted Fly-catchers (Fluvicolæ)..a group of South American birds. 1896Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. V. 134 The stilted lizards.
2. fig. Of (or in reference to) language or style (or, rarely, manner or deportment): Artificially or affectedly lofty; unnaturally elevated; formally pompous. (The usual current sense.)
1820Byron To Murray 28 Sept., You are taken in by that false, stilted, trashy style. 1832S. Warren Diary Late Physic. II. iii. 134 One might wither that fellow with a word or two, the stilted noodle! 1874Green Short Hist. x. (1878) 730 His [Pitt's] letters to his family..are stilted and unnatural in tone. 1909Rider Haggard Yellow God 55 It caused him to cease his stilted talk.
3. Of a plough: Having a stilt or stilts: in parasynthetic formations, as double-stilted, single-stilted.
1844W. H. Maxwell Scot. xvi. (1855) 149 A single-stilted plough. 1911E. Beveridge North Uist x. 315 Double-stilted ploughs.
Hence (in sense 2) ˈstiltedly adv.; ˈstiltedness.
1828Lytton Pelham lxvii, There is a stiffness and stiltedness in the dialogue and descriptions perfectly ridiculous. c1886Kipling Lucia 49 What the later generation is pleased to call the stiltedness of the old-time verse. 1893G. Travers Mona Maclean III. 252 He began somewhat stiltedly. |