steepedadj.
/stiːpt/ Of a rock, rampart: Having a precipitous face or side. Obsolete except in steeped-to = steep-to adj.
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the world > space > relative position > inclination > [adjective] > inclined from level or sloping > steep (except of hills, etc.)
staira1175
slidingc1325
steepa1400–50
side?a1475
right-up1511
steep-down1530
steepwise1542
headlonga1557
steep-up?a1560
pitch hill1560
pendent1587
high-pitched1596
steeped1596
perpendicular1598
steepy1735
declivitous1799
steepish1814
escarped1853
steep-cut1888
swooping1956
the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > cliff > [adjective] > steep or precipitous
prerupt1603
precipitate1615
precipitating1615
precipitious1631
precipit1648
precipitous1660
skerrya1800
steeped-to1858
1596 F. Vere Comm. (1657) ii. 38 A massy rampier, with two round half bulwarks,..not steeped and scarped: so as it was very mountable.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 173 The sides steeped and so hanging over, that it sometimes preserves Snow all the Summer.
1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 361 The islet is..steeped to on all sides.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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steeped
steeped adj.
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the world > matter > liquid > condition of being or making wet > action or process of soaking or steeping > [adjective]
woked1409
confyte1490
infuse1502
soaking1577
steeped1599
yoted?1615
elixed1665
sodden1820
elixated1823
soaked1829
1599 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. (new ed.) f. 95 v That honey-steeped gall, We oft are sayd to bayte our Loues withall.
1639 T. de Gray Compl. Horseman ii. xxi. 348 Give him one of the steeped Egges.
1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Gerot Vlas, rotten or Steeped Flaxe.
1710 N. Blundell Diary (1895) 83 I Rosted my Steeped Wheat to make Coffy on.
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adj.1596as lemmas