volumedadj.
/ˈvɒljuːmd/, U.S. /ˈvɑljəmd/, /ˈvɑlˌjumd/ 1.
a. Made into a volume or volumes of a specified size, number, etc.
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society > communication > book > [adjective] > made into or forming
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. L A little epitomizd Bradfords Meditations no broader volum'd than a Seale at Armes.
a1628 F. Greville Mustapha i. Chorus in Certaine Wks. (1633) 95 There, as in Margents of great volum'd Bookes, The little notes.
1875 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends Pref. 4 Full of the horrors of three volumed novels.
b. Filling a volume or volumes.
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society > communication > book > [adjective] > filling
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volumed1746
1746 P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Satires i. x. 89 Whose volumed works..Kindled around thy corse the funeral fire.
1746 P. Francis tr. Horace in P. Francis & W. Dunkin tr. Horace Epistles i. iv. 5 Do you..Some rhiming Labours meditate, That shall in volum'd Bulk arise.
c. Furnished with volumes.
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society > communication > book > [adjective] > filled or lined with
voluminous1690
book-lined1809
book-walled1822
book-bound1839
book-filled1855
bookful1896
volumed1897
1897 W. D. Howells Landlord Lion's Head 225 The room..was volumed round by the collections of her grandfather.
2. Formed into a rolling, rounded, or dense mass.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [adjective] > densely packed > formed into a dense mass
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1803 in W. Scott Minstrelsy Sc. Border (ed. 2) III. 391 For the hearth's domestic blaze, Ascends destruction's volumed flame.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xlvii. 84 The distant torrent's rushing sound Tells where the volum'd cataract doth roll.
1814 Ld. Byron Corsair ii. v. 41 His breath choak'd gasping with the volumed smoke.
1855 P. J. Bailey Mystic 31 They in his hands the volumed lightnings laid.
1887 G. Meredith Appeasement of Demeter ix The volumed shades enfold An earth in awe before the claps resound.
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