basined
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Adjective[edit]
basined (not comparable)
- Enclosed in a basin.
- 1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC:
- basined rivers
- Having a basin or basins, especially if qualified by the type of basin.
- 1926, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath:
- All golden and lovely it blazed in the sunset, with walls, temples, colonnades and arched bridges of veined marble, silver-basined fountains of prismatic spray in broad squares and perfumed gardens, and wide streets marching between delicate trees and blossom-laden urns and ivory statues in gleaming rows; while on steep northward slopes climbed tiers of red roofs and old peaked gables harboring little lanes of grassy cobbles.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt:
- While persons at once broad-shouldered and big-bellied, or broad-basined and big-bottomed, or broad-basined and big-bellied, or broad-shouldered and big-bottomed, or big-bosomed and broad-shouldered, or big-bosomed and broad-basined, would on no account, if they were in their right senses, commit themselves to this trecherous channel.
- 2006, Jeremy Mercer, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.:
- There was also a large-basined sink with spigots for hot and cold water, a broad mirror, soap, towels, and even a hot-air hand dryer.
- 2013, D. M. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters, page 103:
- The molars of Amphitherium have, for a Jurassic mammal, a large talonid, but it is in no way basined.
- 2008, Adrienne Harris, Gender as Soft Assembly, page 84:
- Attractors, in whatever formation (strange, chaotic, periodic, and deeply basined) are described in structural often spatial forms but they are not reified, static objects.
Verb[edit]
basined
- simple past and past participle of basin