summitedadj.
/ˈsʌmɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈsəmədəd/ 1. Chiefly poetic and literary. In predicative use. Of a mountain or hill: having a summit covered with snow, trees, etc. Now rare.
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1726 S. Wesley tr. Homer Iliad lxv. 53 Olympus summited with Snow was sav'd.
1884 London Soc. Holiday issue 71/1 A majestic crag several hundred feet high, summitted with dark pines.
1947 C. E. Eaton in Western Rev. Winter 104 Opulence withdrawn, form remains: Dark mountains summited with palm.
2. As the second element in compounds: having a summit or summits of the specified kind or number, or covered with the specified thing, as in even-summited, twin-summited, snow-summited, etc.
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1819 tr. J. von Hammer in London Lit. Gaz. 10 July 440/3 The prospect [is] bounded on every side by hills... On the east, by the double-summited Arganthonios [Ger. den zweygipfeligen Arganthonius].
1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 2 532 The cairn-summited dome of Knockarea.
1903 Jrnl. Geol. (Chicago) 11 310 The main feature of the land surface is the even-summited, flat-topped upland area.
1961 Fantastic Oct. 61/2 The plain..was surrounded by jagged, snow-summited mountains.
2008 Cornishman (Nexis) 4 Sept. 12 The ancient hollow way..descends from the saddleback of the twin-summited hill.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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