sharpened, ppl. a.
(ʃɑːp(ə)nd)
[f. sharpen v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb.
| 1594 Willobie Avisa xlv. (Grosart) 94 Your wanny face & sharpened nose Shew plaine, your mind some thing mis⁓likes. 1604 Drayton Moyses ii. 36 The sharpned Reed That with the fluxure of the waue is fed. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) I. 195 By driving a sharpened Stick into every such Hill. 1730 Treat. Harmony 19 That would have no Sharpned or Flatned Notes. 1805–6 Cary Dante, Inf. xxv. 121 He, on the earth who lay, meanwhile extends His sharpen'd visage. 1819 Shelley Mask of Anarchy lxxiv, Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords. 1857 Buckle Civiliz. I. xiii. 733 With..sharpened intellect, he returned to the great field of history. 1905 H. D. Rolleston Dis. Liver 229 The face gets sharpened. |