encrimsoned
English
Etymology
From encrimson + -ed.
Verb
encrimsoned
- simple past tense and past participle of encrimson
Adjective
encrimsoned (comparative more encrimsoned, superlative most encrimsoned)
- Dyed crimson; reddened.
- 1811 July 4, Henry A[lexander] S[cammell] Dearborn, An Oration, Pronounced at Boston, on the Fourth Day of July, 1811, before the Supreme Executive and in the Presence of the Bunker-Hill Association, Boston, Mass.: Printed by Munroe & French, printer to the state, OCLC 4408205, pages 4–5:
- The inflexible advocate[s] of the people's rights, were either expelled the Senate Chamber, ostracised, or immolated on the reeking altars of patriotism, by the encrimsoned sword of slaughtering persecution.
- 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:
- Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light made their way through the trellised panes, and served to render sufficiently distinct the more prominent objects around […] .
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