macadamized, ppl. a.
(məˈkædəmaɪzd)
[f. macadamize + -ed1.]
1. Of a road (see macadamize 1).
| 1827 Blackw. Mag. XXI. 791 We were not seen stumbling even upon a Macadamized road. 1837 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. I. 1/2 Filled in with broken stones, such as are used for M'Adamized roads. 1861 Musgrave By-roads 282, I found even a Mac-adamized road, which crosses the plain, miry enough, in heavy rain. 1889 G. Findlay Eng. Railway 49 A well-constructed macadamized road. |
| fig. 1827 Lytton Falkland 45 Neither in person nor in character was he much beneath or above the ordinary standard of men. He was one of Nature's Macadamized achievements. His great fault was his equality. 1863 Cowden Clarke Shaks. Char. xi. 291 The hard and macadamised road of dry duty and daily labour. |
2. Broken up into road-metal. Also (
nonce-use), strewn with broken stones.
| 1849 C. Sturt Exped. Centr. Austral. I. 238 We then proceeded..down the creek, keeping close upon its banks to avoid the macadamized plains on either side. 1888 Times (weekly ed.) 23 Nov. 3/3 Some loose macadamised stones lying about. |