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shaven, ppl. a.|ˈʃeɪv(ə)n|
Forms: see the verb.
[Strong pa. pple. of shave v.]
1. = shaved ppl. a. 1 b. Chiefly of the head, crown, or of a person; often = tonsured.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 16704 Peres of Langtofte, a chanoun Schauen y þe hous of Brydlyngtoun. c1400Apol. Loll. (Camden) 89 Wil þu hast habit and schauin croun. a1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvi. 28 Quhill preistis come in with bair schevin nekkis. 1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 60 margin, The shaven nacion hath put christ out of his rowme. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 397 His wiues in blacke, with shauen heads, continually mourne. 1647Trapp Comm. 1 Cor. i. (1656) 662 Hence it grew to a proverb in times of Popery, That hell was paved with Priests shaven crowns. a1774R. Fergusson Poems (1807) 240 Wi' powder'd pow and shaven beard. 1781Cowper Charity 55 Their prince..Died, by the sentence of a shaven priest. 1888Kipling Departm. Ditties (ed. 3) 24 And red and ever redder grew the General's shaven gill. 1909J. McCabe Decay Ch. Rome i. 2 Processions of shaven monks.
absol.1528Tindale Obed. Chr. Man 79 margin, The spirte perteyneth vnto the shaven only.
b. Comb.
1591Troub. Raigne K. John xi, Yee shamelesse shauen⁓crowne! 1837Dickens Pickw. xxix, Which had been called Coffin Lane ever since the days of the old abbey, and the time of the shaven-headed monks. 1897Allbutt's Syst. Med. III. 960 The intestine presents the well-known shaven-beard appearance. 1898Syd. Soc. Lex., Shaven-beard appearance, a peculiar appearance of the enlarged intestinal glands in typhoid fever.
2. Of turf, grass: Closely cut.
1632Milton Penseroso 66, I walk unseen On the dry smooth-shaven Green. 1716Lady M. W. Montagu Ep. to Ld. B―t 15 in Dodsley Poems (1748) I. 115 The shaven turf presents a lively green. 1853G. J. Whyte-Melville Digby Grand xix, Three short turns on the general's shaven lawn. 1886Corbett Fall Asgard I. 144 The silvery Gula winding peacefully between the shaven meadows.
3. Trimmed or polished by shaving.
1660,1812Shaven latten [see latten 1 b]. 1788Cowper Death Mrs. Throckm. Bulfinch 23 On props of smoothest-shaven wood. 1793― Tale, ‘In Scotland's realm’, 'Twas shaven deal. 1802Wordsw. Resolution & Indep. xi. 72 Himself he propped..Upon a long grey staff of shaven wood. |