insected
English
Etymology
insect + -ed
Adjective
insected (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Resembling or relating to an insect.
- 1655, James Howell, “To Dr. T. P.”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], volume (please specify the page), 3rd edition, London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], OCLC 84295516:
- if a Bee wer as big as a Bull, it must have a ſting proportionable, and what miſchiefs do you think ſuch ſtings would do, when we can hardly endure the ſting of that ſmall inſected animal […] ?
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References
insected in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- incested