mummied, a.
(ˈmʌmɪd)
[f. mummy + -ed1.]
1. Mummified; converted into a mummy.
| 1611 in Coryat's Crudities Panegyr. Verses, Thinke them happy when may be shewed for a penny..The mummied princes, and Cæsar's wine yet i' Dover. 1842 Lytton Zanoni v. i, The mummied and royal dead. 1900 Petrie Dendereh 59 Cercopithecus sabæus Linn. One mummied specimen. |
2. transf. and fig.
| 1862 B. Taylor Poet's Jrnl. 3rd Even. Poems (1866) 50 Shelved around us lie The mummied authors. |
3. Of a fruit: brown and dry as a result of brown rot disease, caused by a fungus of the genus Sclerotinia.
| 1909 B. M. Duggar Fungous Diseases of Plants xi. 190 These mummied fruits are the chief sources of infection the following season, under ordinary conditions. 1935 Bull. Min. Agric. & Fish. LXXXVIII. 1 A fruit so infected [with a fungus of the genus Sclerotinia], instead of disintegrating becomes dried up and ‘mummied’. |