Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Past participle of see.
  • Manifest; evident.
  • Experienced; versed; skilled.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • p. p. of see.
  • adjective obsolete Versed; skilled; accomplished.

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  • verb Past participle of see

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Examples

  • _He that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen_?

    Daily Strength for Daily Needs Mary W. Tileston

  • The forms in question -- _seeing, having seen, being seen, having been seen_, and _having been seeing_, for instance -- are now made from the verb in precisely the same way when partaking the nature of the noun as when partaking the nature of the adjective.

    Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg

  • We have seen that one of Lee’s designs in crossing the Potomac was to give the people of Maryland “an opportunity of liberating themselves”; he accordingly issued an address to them declaring that the South had “watched with deepest sympathy” their wrongs and had “seen with profound indignation their sister State deprived of every right and reduced to the condition of a conquered province.

    Chapter IV 1917

  • The suffering woman might have seen it from the rude bunk whereon she lay, —seen it winding like a silver thread until it was lost in the stars above.

    The Luck of Roaring Camp 1917

  • Only Dickie was too numb to recognise the form her confession of love had taken; love, as always, was clamouring to be clearly seen -- naked, if need be, blood-guilty, if need be -- but _seen_ ... and then swept up, sin and all, by another love big enough to accept this truth, also, as essentially part of her.

    The Best British Short Stories of 1922 John Cournos 1915

  • Many a time had I heard and read of our lifeboats, and had seen them reposing in their boat-houses, as well as out "for exercise," but now I had _seen_ a lifeboat tearing before the gale through the tormented sea, sternly bent on the real work of saving human life.

    Battles with the Sea 1859

  • Details have also been released concerning the title seen below.

    DS-x2 headlines 2008

  • A label seen all over the world facing scrutiny after a series of safety snafus, some of them deadly.

    CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2007 2007

  • As already pointed out in Chapters VII. and VIII. the chief concussion effects on the nervous tissue of the brain and spinal cord are of a destructive nature, far exceeding those accompanying the injuries designated by the same term seen in the ordinary accidents met with in civil practice, and this damage is comparatively localised in extent.

    Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre George Henry Makins

  • Not a style king, no way, but a legend among writers for the energy he put forth, getting his tag seen by major millions and then two weeks ago, and a genuine regret went through Ismael as he recalled being told, he slumped and sagged all over again and felt the deepest kind of soldierly sadness—Skaty 8 hit by a train while he’s walking on the tracks under downtown Brooklyn.

    Underworld Don Delillo 2008

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  • What has been seen cannot be unseen.

    January 30, 2009

  • revealed

    July 23, 2009