caverned

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Etymology

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From cavern +‎ -ed.

Adjective

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caverned (comparative more caverned, superlative most caverned)

  1. (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
    • 1815, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth[1], XXXIII, lines 1022-1023:
      The wolves yelled on the caverned hill
      Where echo tolled in thunder still;
  2. Living in a cavern.
    • 1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. [], epistle 4, London: Printed for J[ohn] Wilford, [], →OCLC, page 63, lines 39–42:
      No Bandit fierce, no Tyrant mad with pride, / No cavern'd Hermit, reſt ſelf-ſatisfy'd; / Who moſt to ſhun or hate mankind pretend, / Seek an Admirer, or wou'd fix a Friend.
    • 1828, Walter Colton, Remarks on Duelling[2], New York: Leavitt, page 40:
      [] he will heed as little the lofty generous enterprises that kindle upon the moral world, as a caverned bear the luminous expanse of the glittering heaven.

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