dilated, ppl. a.
(daɪˈleɪtɪd)
[f. dilate v.2 + -ed1.]
Widened, expanded, distended, diffused, etc.: see the verb.
| c 1450 tr. De Imitatione iii. lvi, Þat þou wiþ a dilated herte mowe renne þe way of my commandementes. 1606 Shakes. Tr. & Cr. ii. iii. 261 A shore confines Thy spacious and dilated parts. 1651 Stanley Poems 29 In an elms dilated shade. 1667 Milton P.L. iv. 986 Satan allarm'd Collecting all his might dilated stood. 1758 J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) 264 The dilated Urethra was very thin. 1859 Tennyson Enid 1445 Then there flutter'd in, Half-bold, half-frighted, with dilated eyes, A tribe of women. 1865 Kingsley Herew. x. (1866) 157 His dilated nostril. |
† b. Enlarged upon. Obs.
| 1599 Jas. I βασιλ. Δωρον (1682) 74 Exercise true wisdome; in discerning wisely betwixt true and false reports; first..and last [considering] the nature and by-past life of the dilated person. |
† c. Cryst. (See quot.) Obs.
| 1805–17 R. Jameson Char. Min. 215 Dilated, the name given to a variety of dodecahedral calcareous spar, in which the bases of the extreme pentagons are in some degree enlarged by the inclination of the lateral planes. |
d. Her. ‘Opened or extended. Applied to a Pair of Compasses, Barnacles, etc.’ Cussans, 1882.
Hence diˈlatedly adv., in a dilated manner, with dilatation; diffusely.
| 1627 Feltham Resolves xxi. (ed. 1) 64 His..aberrations, wherein he hath dilatedly tumbled himselfe. |