exploded, ppl. a.
(ɛkˈspləʊdɛd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb.
† 1. That has been hissed off the stage. Obs.
| 1713 Swift Cadenus & V. Wks. 1755 III. ii. 13 Fustian from exploded plays. 1779–81 Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 81 After the Three Hours after Marriage had been driven off the stage..while the exploded scene was yet fresh in memory. |
2. a. Held in contempt; rejected, scouted. Also in weaker sense, disused, out of fashion. (Said of customs, opinions, etc.; rarely of persons.)
| 1626 Massinger Rom. Actor iv. ii, To put in an exploded plea In the court of Venus. 1710 Steele Tatler No. 58 ¶2 A Thing so exploded as speaking hard Words. 1790 Burke Fr. Rev. 36 A conflict with some of those exploded fanatics of slavery. 1793 Beddoes Catarrh 160 The exploded theories of Boerhaave or Cullen. 1868 Milman St. Paul's xix. 486 When mercy was on all sides an exploded virtue, he dared to be merciful. 1879 M{supc}Carthy Own Times II. xxiii. 185 The time..had gone by when such exploded politics could even interest the people. |
† b. Of a material object: Discarded, disused; out of fashion.
Obs.| 1823 Lamb Elia Ser. i. xviii. 194 The little cool playful streams those exploded cherubs uttered. 1829 The Bengallee 169 An old Dowager's now exploded pair of pockets. |
† 3. Driven forth with violence and sudden noise.
| 1826 Disraeli Viv. Grey vi. i, The exploded cork whizzed through the air. |
4. a. In sense 6 of the verb.
| 1858 Greener Gunnery 209 Conical form being best suited..to the action of the exploded fluid. |
| fig. 1876 Holland Sev. Oaks viii. 109 It had been..occupied for a year or two by an exploded millionaire. |
b. Of a model or illustrated technical drawing: showing all the separate components as if ‘exploded’ from the complete unit but retaining their relative positions.
| 1947 H. C. Elliott Textbk. Nerv. Syst. p. xi/2 New features are encountered..; among these is a simplified form of the ‘exploded diagram’. 1949 Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LIII. 60/2 They had to study the exploded drawing of the components. 1951 Engineering 13 July 33/2 An ‘exploded’ model shows the layout of a pit head. 1962 Corson & Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields ii. 42 The exploded view shows one of the volume elements in detail. |