kingdomedadj.
/ˈkɪŋdəmd/, U.S. /ˈkɪŋdəmd/ΘΚΠ
society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [adjective] > of or relating to realm > furnished with or constituted as kingdom
kingdomed1609
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 173 Twixt his mentall and his actiue parts, Kingdomd [poor type; 1623 Kingdom'd] Achilles in commotion rages, And batters downe himselfe. View more context for this quotation
1791 W. W. Carr Poems Var. Subj. 35 The ample range, the kingdom'd sweep, The blue command of yon ethereal sweep.
1838 S. Bellamy Betrayal 22 Empire in its regal seat..And kingdom'd character.
1874 A. C. Swinburne Bothwell iv. i. 368 Earth's whole strengths met on the warring sea And side with side clashed of the kingdomed world.
2. With preceding modifying word, as ten, many, etc.: consisting of or divided into a given number of kingdoms.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > jurisdiction or territory of specific rulers or nobles > [adjective] > of or relating to realm > divided into kingdoms
kingdomed1649
1649 J. Goodwin Ὑβριστοδίκαι: Obstructours of Justice 94 Their attempt to advance into a three-Kingdom'd Throne.
1820 R. Bayford Messiah's Kingdom xxi. 227 The power of this ten-kingdomed empire was to continue for forty-two prophetical months.
1854 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 21 265 The much-lacerated, many-kingdomed, state-splintered ‘Fatherland’.
1918 Christian Workers Mag. Aug. 949/1 The ten-kingdomed world-empire must be unified, the many sects of Christendom must also be unified.
2001 T. Hemenway Gaia's Garden viii. 149/2 By hooking into the cyclical rhythms of many-kingdomed nature, a guild can capitalize on enormous sources of energy.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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