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volumed, a.|ˈvɒljuːmd| [f. volume n. and v.] 1. Made into a volume or volumes of a specified size, number, etc.
1596Nashe Saffron Walden L j b, A little epitomizd Bradfords Meditations, no broader volum'd than a Seale at Armes. 1609F. Grevil Mustapha i. Chorus, There, as in margents of great volum'd bookes The little notes. 1875A. R. Hope My Schoolboy Fr. Pref. 4 Full of the horrors of three volumed novels. b. Filling a volume or volumes.
1746Francis tr. Horace, Sat. i. x. 89 Whose volumed works..Kindled around thy corse the funeral fire. ― Epist. i. iv. 5 Do you..Some rhiming Labours meditate, That shall in volum'd Bulk arise. c. Furnished with volumes.
1897Howells Landlord at Lion's Head 225 The room..was volumed round by the collections of her grandfather. 2. Formed into a rolling, rounded, or dense mass.
1803Scott Cadyow Castle xxiv, For the hearth's domestic blaze, Ascends destruction's volumed flame. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. xlviii, The distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volum'd cataract doth roll. 1813― Corsair ii. v. 18 His breath choked gasping with the volumed smoke. 1855Bailey Mystic 31 They in his hands the volumed lightnings laid. 1887Meredith Appeasement of Demeter ix, The volumed shades enfold An earth in awe before the claps resound. |