travested

comparative more travested · superlative most travested

1. formaluncommonDisguised; degraded; debased.First known use 17th c.

   Our Traveſted Baroneſs had ſtill at that time above twelve Thouſand Livers, in Gems, and Jewels about her.

   1684, anonymous author, Eve Revived, or The fair One Stark-Naked, London: […] Wiltam Downang, page 84

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   Mr. Smith says, that the President was educated to worship the Constitution. Nay; but to worship a travested, falsified and mutilated thing called the Constitution, as differerent from the real Constitution of the U.S., as impartial liberty is from the chattel slave gystem.

   1862 February 28, C. Stuart, “Gerrit Smith's Letter to Mr. Croswell”, in Douglass' Monthly, volume IV, number IX, page 597

   *The analysis of dreams, which is so travested by the Freudians, is an important and interesting part of psychology.

   1920, Knight Dunlap, Mysticism, Freudianism and Scientific Psychology, St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, page 80

   The truth is that the child is not ‘like a boy,’ and that if you put him into a coat and waistcoat forthwith, he only would look like a small angel travested.

   1995, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Julia Markus, Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Alfred A. Knopf, page 20

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of travest