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curtailed, ppl. a.|kɜːˈteɪld|
Also 6–7 curtalled, etc.
[f. curtail v. and curtal n. + -ed.]
1. Made a curtal; having the tail docked or cut off.
1591Florio Sec. Fruites 43 Another [horse] broken winded, curtald, lame, blinde, foundred. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 419 My curtailed dog. 1610Fletcher Faithf. Shepherdess To Rdr., With cur-tailed dogs in strings. 1870Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 101 The yelp of curtailed foxes in every generation is the same.
†b. transf. Shaped at the end as if cut off short.
1575Gascoigne Wks. (1587) 154 A curtolde slipper and a short silke hose. 1592Greene Def. Conny Catch. (1859) 33 A..peake pendent, either sharpe..or curtold lyke the broad ende of a Moule spade. 1601Holland Pliny II. 218 The smallest roots of Ellebor, such as be..curtelled, and not sharp pointed in the bottom.
2. Cut short; shortened, abridged; diminished in length, extent, power, privilege.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 217 But let vs heare their curtalled argumentes. c1620S. Smith Serm. (1866) I. 156 With the curtailed skirts of David's ambassadors [cf. 2 Sam. x. 4]. 1641Milton Reform. i. (1851) 13 They must mew their feathers, and their pounces, and make but curt-tail'd Bishops of them. 1879Lubbock Addr. Pol. & Educ. x. 205 According to the most curtailed chronology.
†3. ? Short-skirted: cf. curtal 3 d. Obs.
1624Fletcher Wife for Month ii. vi, They are curtall'd queanes in hired clothes.
Hence curˈtailedly adv., shortly, abbreviatedly.
1658W. Burton Itin. Anton. 167 The name thereof..perhaps..was written curtail'dly. |