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- not comparableEnclosed in a basin.
basined rivers
1742–1745, [Edward Young], The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, & Immortality, London: […] [Samuel Richardson] for A[ndrew] Millar […], and R[obert] Dodsley […], published 1750, →OCLC - not comparableHaving a basin or basins, especially if qualified by the type of basin.
The molars of Amphitherium have, for a Jurassic mammal, a large talonid, but it is in no way basined.
2013, D. M. Kermack, The Evolution of Mammalian Characters, page 1034 more examples
All golden and lovely it blazed in the sunset, with walls, temples, colonnades and arched bridges of veined marble, silver-basined fountains of prismatic spray in broad squares and perfumed gardens, and wide streets marching between delicate trees and blossom-laden urns and ivory statues in gleaming rows; while on steep northward slopes climbed tiers of red roofs and old peaked gables harboring little lanes of grassy cobbles.
1926, H. P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown KadathWhile persons at once broad-shouldered and big-bellied, or broad-basined and big-bottomed, or broad-basined and big-bellied, or broad-shouldered and big-bottomed, or big-bosomed and broad-shouldered, or big-bosomed and broad-basined, would on no account, if they were in their right senses, commit themselves to this trecherous channel.
1953, Samuel Beckett, WattThere was also a large-basined sink with spigots for hot and cold water, a broad mirror, soap, towels, and even a hot-air hand dryer.
2006, Jeremy Mercer, Time Was Soft There: A Paris Sojourn at Shakespeare & Co.Attractors, in whatever formation (strange, chaotic, periodic, and deeply basined) are described in structural often spatial forms but they are not reified, static objects.
2008, Adrienne Harris, Gender as Soft Assembly, page 84
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of basin
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adjectiveenclosed in a basin
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