ramified

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It would be advantageous if they were all put in one separate part; for then their influence would not be so ramified, and they might in the end get up a small Kilkenny affair and mutually finish off one another.

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  1. In zoology and anatomy, branched; having branches; dividing and redividing: as, ramified nervures of the wings.
  2. Ramified corpuscle a lacuna of bone, having long slender processes which ramify and inosculate with those of other lacunæ; an ordinary bone-cell.

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  • What fascinated Janacek, I think, was the way that simple theme became endlessly ramified, and yet, somehow, retained its identity. —  MFSF,January2005
  • They saw the point, and though they did not cease from warring on each other, or mulcting the general public, they were ruthless in exterminating the socialists and they left the goods and adjuncts of Consolidated Pemmican and Allied Industries scrupulously unmolested Strange as it sounds, it was not my part in protecting the world from the philosophy of equality, nor my ramified properties, which gave me my unique position. —  Greener Than You Think
  • Those abstracts are too voluminous for these pages: a perusal of them in their original form would repay the reader, and show that the great commercial country of the world was Great Britain--that so extensive and ramified were her trade transactions, that she might be considered the centre of universal commerce. —  The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
  • And as his mind explored the subject, it ramified, and grew more complicated and oppressive with every step of the way It gradually became plain to him that, in clearing himself of responsibility for the Post's editorial, he would have to put West in a very unpleasant position. —  Queed
  • There was more genius in it than in any structure of the kind I have ever seen,--each length being of a special pattern, ramified, reticulated, contorted, as the limbs of the trees had grown. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
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