Meanings
alternative javelinned
- not comparablerareWielding or equipped with a javelin or javelins.
The diamond sun upon thy purple breast / Compares not with the light of my own North / Flashing from ice and snow and javelined men.
1875, Sigismund Krasinski [i.e., Zygmunt Krasiński], translated by Martha Walker Cook, “Iridion”, in The Undivine Comedy, and Other Poems, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, act II, scene I2 more examples
Think of this, you jolly hog-hunters of India! Regret, when you next ride to pig, with a single spear in your hand, that you did not live in the past, when, if you had gone after the same beast in armour, javelined, and sworded, you might have been a hero.
1885, Phil Robinson, “Beasts of Chase”, in The Poets’ Beasts: A Sequel to “The Poets’ Birds”, London: Chatto and Windus, […], →OCLC, page 209Behold, lad, great tidings! Tidings from the hostel. A road for ships. A gleam of javelined men, fían-valorous in their wounding exploits. A great catastrophe. A fair woman upon whom the red embroidery of slaughter has settled. Behold!
1981, Jeffrey Gantz, transl., “The Destruction of Da Derga’s Hostel”, in Early Irish Myths and Sagas, London: Penguin Classics, →ISBN, page 70
Origin
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