motheredadj.1
/ˈmʌðəd/, U.S. /ˈməðərd/ Having a mother or mothers (of a specified number or kind).Only with modifying adverb.
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > having (specific) parents > having a mother
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1669 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. I ii. iii. 29 The Poets fable Bacchus to be..double mothered.
1791 R. Cumberland Observer (ed. 2) V. cli. 275 Three such high-blooded bards as Linus, Orpheus, and Musæus, so fathered and so mothered, were enough to people all Greece with poets and musicians.
1974 L. Jeffers When I know Power of my Black Hand 39 A black man white-mothered is a lostling from his heart.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† motheredadj.2
Obsolete.
That has become full of sediment or dregs.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > covered with scum > containing mother
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1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 116 They oint their naked Limbs with mother'd Oyl. View more context for this quotation
1728 T. Sheridan in tr. Persius Satyrs iv. 61 (note) Mothered Wine.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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