endiademed

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English

Etymology

en- +‎ diadem +‎ -ed

Adjective

endiademed (not comparable)

  1. (archaic, poetic) Wearing a diadem.
    • 1837, Sir Francis Palgrave, Truths and fictions of the Middle Ages: The merchant and the friar, page 247:
      Opposite is the emblem of the Gospel, a maiden, brightly looking heavenwards, her head endiademed, the budding lily in her hand.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for endiademed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)