regionedadj.
/ˈriːdʒ(ə)nd/, U.S. /ˈridʒ(ə)nd/ Frequently poetic.
Belonging to or placed in a particular region. Also: having a region or regions; divided into regions. Frequently with modifying word, as lower-regioned, many-regioned, etc.
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1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία Index sig.Ppv Lower-Region'd Souls.
1670 W. Marshall Answers upon Several Heads Philos. ii. Ep. Ded. sig. G7v I know when retiring from your higher-region'd speculations you are pleased to make unto your selves a Platonick divertisement.
1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. i, in Lamia & Other Poems 152 Space region'd with life-air; and barren void.
1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 12 Thence, hawk-like, through the purgatorial air, And many-regioned aether..soared he to the crescent moon.
1872 A. T. de Vere Mount Cruachan in Legends St. Patrick 160 His prayer Rose and far spread; nor roused alone those Powers Regioned with God.
1920 E. A. Robinson Three Taverns 15 The many deserts I have crossed That are not named or regioned, have undone..The part of me that is the least of me.
1985 Willdenowia 14 411 Perithecial wall thick..two regioned, made up of textura angularis (cells brown, thick, up to 2.5 μm diam in the outer region).
2000 T. Reuter in Nobles & Nobility in Medieval Europe vi. 86 But these relationships found articulations which were undoubtedly ‘gendered’, and were also ‘aged’ and ‘regioned’ and differentiated in other ways as well.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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