javelined
English
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Etymology
Adjective
javelined (not comparable)
- (rare) Wielding or equipped with a javelin or javelins.
- 1875, Sigismund Krasinski [i.e., Zygmunt Krasiński], translated by Martha Walker Cook, “Iridion”, in The Undivine Comedy, and Other Poems, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, act II, scene I:
- The diamond sun upon thy purple breast / Compares not with the light of my own North / Flashing from ice and snow and javelined men.
- 1885, Phil Robinson, “Beasts of Chase”, in The Poets’ Beasts: A Sequel to “The Poets’ Birds”, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 209:
- Think of this, you jolly hog-hunters of India! Regret, when you next ride to pig, with a single spear in your hand, that you did not live in the past, when, if you had gone after the same beast in armour, javelined, and sworded, you might have been a hero.
- 1981, Jeffrey Gantz, transl., “The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel”, in Early Irish Myths and Sagas, London: Penguin Classics, →ISBN, page 70:
- Behold, lad, great tidings! Tidings from the hostel. A road for ships. A gleam of javelined men, fían-valorous in their wounding exploits. A great catastrophe. A fair woman upon whom the red embroidery of slaughter has settled. Behold!
Verb
javelined
- simple past and past participle of javelin