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ruinated, ppl. a.|ˈruːɪneɪtɪd|
[f. prec. + -ed.]
1. Ruined, ruinous, in ruins. (Common c 1580–1780, now somewhat rare.)
attrib.1555Spurge in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xl. 111 Build up again the decayed walls of thy ruinated Jerusalem. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. cxlvii. i, The Lord againe to forme doth bring Jerusalems long ruinated walls. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 943 To fortifie both with wals and ditches that ruinated citie. 1683Cave Ecclesiastici Introd. p. lxiii, These ruinated Temples were generally turn'd into Churches. 1705tr. Bosman's Guinea 51 The Houses are in a ruinated Condition. 1792S. Ireland Views Thames I. 150 The castle probably remained in a ruinated state. 1812Combe Syntax, Picturesque ix, But this fine building long has been A sad and ruinated scene. 1894Trans. Devon. Assoc. XXVI. 302 The original character of this much ruinated monument.
pred.1577Hellowes Gueuara's Chron. 107 The authoritie of a common wealth is impayred, when the buildings be ruinated. 1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 76 Most of the Castells are ruinated and remayne vncovered. 1643Trapp Comm. Gen. xxxv. 14 He repairs the pillar now ruinated, and new consecrates it. 1735J. Price Stone-Br. Thames 13 That of Avignon..is ruinated, and has nothing left but some Arches. 1779R. Graves Columella I. 48 On the brow of one hill appeared the Sibyl's temple, ruinated like that at Tivoli. 1847H. Miller First Impr. Eng. viii. (1857) 136 They are all ruinated now.
†2. Brought to ruin or decay. Obs.
1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 57 The means to prouide for decayed or ruinated prouinces. 1638Junius Paint. Ancients 71 Content..to die in the revenge of their ruinated country. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. i. (1682) 227 A sad presage of a ruinated and expiring Empire. |