chasmy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
chasmy (comparative more chasmy, superlative most chasmy)
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a chasm.
- 1791–1792 (published 1793), William Wordsworth, “Extracts from Descriptive Sketches Taken during a Pedestrian Tour in the Alps”, in Poems […], volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […], published 1815, →OCLC, page 81:
- They cross the chasmy torrent's foam-lit bed, / Rocked on the dizzy larch's narrow tread; […]
- 1864, Thomas Carlyle, “Battle of Kesselsdorf”, in History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great, volume IV, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC, book XV, pages 213–214:
- North-eastward, at the extreme right, or Elbe point of it, where Grüne and the Austrians stand, it has grown so chasmy, we judge that Grüne can neither advance nor be advanced upon: so we leave him standing there,—which he did all day, in a purely meditative posture.
References[edit]
- “chasmy”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “chasmy”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.