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- adjective Archaic form of
armed . - verb archaic Simple past tense and past participle of
arm .
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Examples
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"Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball, / And now their odours arm'd against them fly: / Some preciously by shatter'd porcelain fall, / And some by aromatic splinters die."
Ten of the best 2011
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"Amidst whole heaps of spices lights a ball, / And now their odours arm'd against them fly: / Some preciously by shatter'd porcelain fall, / And some by aromatic splinters die."
Ten of the best 2011
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Notably, the poet sections off the final two lines, emphasizing their role in the poem with paralleled alliteration arm'd array/solid stuff.
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Notably, the poet sections off the final two lines, emphasizing their role in the poem with paralleled alliteration arm'd array/solid stuff.
An excursion into Victorian Protestant poetry: "Heart of Oak" 2009
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Who came arm'd with a squirt, which could do him no hurt
sir jefferey hudson hradzka 2009
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Her breastplate arm'd with vipers wreathed around.
Ion 2008
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People have too great an Opinion of their own Wisdom, so I, no doubt, thought my self as capable to make or use a Conquest, as any Town − Lady, arm'd Cap − a − pee with all Sorts of Embellishments, who had serv'd divers Campaigns under the Banner of Venus; but too late I found my Folly and Weakness in this my opinionated Wisdom.
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People have too great an Opinion of their own Wisdom, so I, no doubt, thought my self as capable to make or use a Conquest, as any Town − Lady, arm'd Cap − a − pee with all Sorts of Embellishments, who had serv'd divers Campaigns under the Banner of Venus; but too late I found my Folly and Weakness in this my opinionated Wisdom.
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Her breastplate arm'd with vipers wreathed around.
Ion 2008
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Sicily, we were met by Pyrates, who being many and well arm'd, soon made themselves our Masters.
Exilius 2008
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