Meanings
comparative more variegatedly · superlative most variegatedly
- In a variegated manner.
Slaty Coal, variegatedly tarnished with the colour of tempered Steel;
1798, Dietrich Ludwig Gustavus Karsten, translated by George Mitchell, A Description of the Minerals in the Leskean Museum, volumes I (Containing the Characteristic and Systematic Collections), Dublin: […] R. E. Mercier and Co. […], page 2045 more examples
9, Iris pumila. Dwarf Flower de Luce. β. flore rubello. red flowered. γ. flore variegato. variegatedly flowered.
[c. 1790], John Græfer, A Descriptive Catalogue of Upwards of Eleven Hundred Species and Varieties of Herbaceous or Perennial Plants; […], 2nd edition, London: […] J. Smeeton, […], page 62[…]the thickly interwoven branches of ſpreading trees embowered a rude ſtone—Tufts of graſs and ſoft moſſes growing over it had formed it into an eaſy ſeat; and withering fern, intermixed with green weeds, ſpreading a variegatedly verdant carpet, induced us to reſt ourſelves.
1802, Anne Ormsby, “Letter LIII. From Lady Albion to Dr. Wesserman.”, in Memoirs of a Family in Swisserland; Founded on Facts, volume IV, London: […] A[ndrew] Strahan, […], for T[homas] N[orton] Longman, and O[wen] Rees, […], pages 141–142His waistcoat, as variegatedly dazzling as a well-shaken kaleidoscope, opened in the middle to display a green satin neckcloth, be-pinned and be-chained from the top to the bottom like a lady’s stomacher.
1836, Henry Lytton Bulwer, The Monarchy of the Middle Classes: France, Social, Literary, Political, second series, Paris: […] [John] A[nthony] and W[illiam] Galignani and Cᵒ, […], page 194[…]its flowers are solitary, and grow on long axillary footstalks, and have a small size, a very elegant form, and a variegatedly blue and violet corolla, and bloom from May till November.
1849, “TOADFLAX”, in John M[arius] Wilson, editor, The Rural Cyclopedia, or A General Dictionary of Agriculture, and of the Arts, Sciences, Instruments, and Practice, Necessary to the Farmer, Stockfarmer, Gardener, Forester, Landsteward, Farrier, &c., volumes IV (Q–Z), Edinburgh: A[rchibald] Fullarton and Co., […]; and […] London, page 467To any ritualism so recognized and sanctioned no one may justly object, but beyond the license thus indicated, begins excess, which, being once outside the legitimate limitation, may run riot in any amount of extravagance which the fancy or the folly of the individual affects—such as the use of fading flowers cut off from their root to symbolize a resurrection to life—groups of variegatedly vested and artistically attitudinizing priests, to observe the sacrament instituted with so much simplicity in the upper chamber at Jerusalem—[…].
1869 May, Journal of the Seventy-Fourth Annual Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, Held in St. George’s Church, Fredericksburg on the 26th, 27th, 28th and 29th May, 1869, Richmond: Gary, Clemmitt & Jones, […], page 34
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