quivered

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Verb

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quivered

  1. simple past and past participle of quiver

Adjective

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quivered (not comparable)

  1. Furnished with, or carrying, a quiver for arrows.
    • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: [] [Comus], London: [] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, [], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: [] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
      'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity:
      She that has that is clad in complete steel,
      And, like a quivered nymph with arrows keen,
      May trace huge forests, and unharboured heaths []
  2. Sheathed, as in a quiver.

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