单词 | clefted |
释义 | cleftedcliftedadj. Having clefts, divisions, or fissures; cleft, split. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > cleaving or splitting > [adjective] > cleft, split, or having clefts cleft1393 acleft?c1425 clefted1552 splitted1594 clefty1632 split1648 cloven1676 fissured1788 splitten1832 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Clefted or cleued in two partes, bifidus. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) vii. f. 84 Dipping in the pits of bloud a sort of clifted brandes. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 567 To couer close with clouen or clefted cloathes, or garments. 1697 W. Congreve Mourning Bride i. i. 7 The swarming Populace, spread every Wall..thro' clifted Stones; stretching, and staring. 1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. (1796) II. 208 Flowers sitting, mostly 4-clefted. 1828 T. Aird in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 712/1 Among the clefted branches. 1861 L. L. Noble After Icebergs 248 The whole clifted and pinnacled circumference [of an ice-berg]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adj.1552 |
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