caverned

comparative more caverned · superlative most caverned

1. poeticPitted or hollowed out with caverns.

   The wolves yelled on the caverned hill Where echo tolled in thunder still;

   1815, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth, XXXIII, lines 1022-1023

2. Living in a cavern.

   […] he will heed as little the lofty generous enterprises that kindle upon the moral world, as a caverned bear the luminous expanse of the glittering heaven.

   1828, Walter Colton, Remarks on Duelling, New York: Leavitt, page 40

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   No Bandit fierce, no Tyrant mad with pride, / No cavern'd Hermit, reſt ſelf-ſatisfy'd; / Who moſt to ſhun or hate mankind pretend, / Seek an Admirer, or wou'd fix a Friend.

   1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC, page 63, lines 39–42