Crescented. World English Historical Dictionary

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ppl. a. [f. CRESCENT sb. + -ED.]

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  1.  Formed as a crescent or new moon.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., IV. 432. ’Tis Dian’s: lo! She rises crescented.

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1835.  Willis, Pencillings, I. iii. 25. The crescented shore of this lovely bay.

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1876.  G. F. Chambers, Astron., I. iv. 60. Becoming more and more crescented, it approaches the inferior conjunction.

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  2.  Ornamented, or charged, with crescents.

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1818.  Todd, Dict., s.v. Crescent v., The old heraldick adjective crescented, i. e. having a crescent.

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  3.  Adorned with the crescent moon. nonce-use.

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c. 1825.  Beddoes, Apotheosis, Poems 98. Crescented night, and amethystine stars, And day, thou god and glory of the heavens, Flow on for ever!

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