travested

English

Adjective

travested (comparative more travested, superlative most travested)

1. (uncommon, formal) Disguised; degraded; debased. [from 17th c.]
   • 1684, anonymous author, Eve Revived, or The fair One Stark-Naked, London:  […] Wiltam Downang, page 84:

     Our Traveſted Baroneſs had ſtill at that time above twelve Thouſand Livers, in Gems, and Jewels about her.

   • 1862 February, C. Stuart, “Gerrit Smith's Letter to Mr. Croswell”, in Douglass' Monthly, volume IV, number IX, page 597:

     Mr. Smith says, that the President was educated to worship the Constitution. Nay; but to worship a travested, falsified and mutilated thing called the Constitution, as differerent from the real Constitution of the U.S., as impartial liberty is from the chattel slave gystem.

   • 1920, Knight Dunlap, Mysticism, Freudianism and Scientific Psychology, St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, page 80:

     *The analysis of dreams, which is so travested by the Freudians, is an important and interesting part of psychology.

   • 1995, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Julia Markus, Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Alfred A. Knopf, page 20:

     The truth is that the child is not ‘like a boy,’ and that if you put him into a coat and waistcoat forthwith, he only would look like a small angel travested.

Verb

travested

1. simple past and past participle of travest