ˈhornified, ppl. a.
[f. hornify v. + -ed1.]
† 1. Make horned, cuckolded. Obs.
| a 1693 Urquhart Rabelais iii. xlvi. 373 Hornified and cornuted. 1769 Pub. Advertiser 18 May 4/1 My hornified Situation. |
2. Adorned with horns; of a horn-like texture.
| 1789 J. Byng Diary 30 June in Torrington Diaries (1935) II. 113 We enter'd the old cloisters, now glazed up; and so hornified are their walls, as to give horrible presage; their being horns of all sorts of wild cattle. 1963 R. R. A. Higham Handbk. Papermaking ii. 36 The hornified cellulose fibres are not capable of assuming their original shape because of the permanent set that has taken place in the structural walls of the fibres. |