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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

escutcheoned en · ADJ

Etymology

From escutcheon + -ed.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Having an escutcheon; furnished with a coat of arms or ensign.
    • escutcheoned world 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
    • Not every forefather of mine rests quiet beneath his escutcheoned marble. There are they who revisit, in their wrath or their remorse, the places wherein erst they suffered or wrought evil. 1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1912, →OCLC:

Deriveds

unescutcheoned