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buskined, ppl. a.|ˈbʌskɪnd|
[f. buskin n. + -ed2.]
1. Shod or covered with buskins.
1590Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 71 The bouncing Amazon Your buskin'd Mistresse. 1704Pope Windsor For. 168 Her buskin'd Virgins. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iv. 104 A brown peasant boy of ten, with buskined legs.
2. spec. Wearing the buskins of tragedy; fig. and transf., concerned with or belonging to tragedy.
1626Massinger Rom. Actor i. i, The Greeks, to whom we owe the first invention Both of the buskined scene & humble sock. 1742Young Nt. Th. vi. 349 See the buskin'd chief Unshod..Reduc'd to his own Stature. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 135 They would be ranted on the stage by some buskined hero or tragedy queen.
b. Tragic; dignified, elevated, lofty.
1595Markham Sir R. Grinuile lxxi, Rich buskin'd Seneca. 1632Brome Court Begg. iii. i. Wks. 1873 I. 220 Petra[r]k's buskin'd stile. a1771Gray Poems (1775) 35 In buskin'd measures move Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain. 1838–9Hallam Hist. Lit. III. iii. vi. §98 The interest serious, but not always of buskined dignity. 1841De Quincey Homer & H. Wks. VI. 393 To speak in a sort of stilted, or at least buskined language. |