cataphracted

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adjective

Covered with, or wearing, a cataphract.

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Meanings

adjectivecataphracted (not comparable)
  1. not comparableCovered with, or wearing, a cataphract.

    The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.

    1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 121

Origin

From cataphract + -ed.

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APA

cataphracted. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cataphracted

MLA

“cataphracted.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cataphracted. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cataphracted,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cataphracted.

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