Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Furnished with towns.

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

  • adjective obsolete Having towns; containing many towns.

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  • adjective obsolete Having towns; containing many towns.

Etymologies

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town +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • But I expect the “always go to federal court” remark was meant to refer to diversity jurisdiction, in which federal courts may be accessed by parties who reside in different states, a constitutional option that supposedly avoids citizens of state A being home-towned by the local courts of state B.

    Libel Laws and Scoundrel Refuges - The Panda's Thumb 2006

  • Can — taberra and Neweryork may supprecate when, by vepers, for towned and travalled, his goldwhite swaystick aloft ylifted, umbrilla-parasoul, Monsigneur of Deublan shall impart to all.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • So the next question is going to be, you know, we lawyers -- and Nelda can talk about this, as well as I can -- we're always worried about getting home towned.

    CNN Transcript Jul 19, 2003 2003

  • Watched that land she came from, towned with ruins

    Miscellany of Poetry 1919 Various 1931

  • Besides that, it is the goodliest and most pleasing Territorie of the world: for the continent is of an huge and unknowen greatnesse, and very well peopled and towned, though savagely, and the climate so wholesome, that wee had not one sicke since we touched the land here.

    Raleigh's First Roanoke Colony. 1902

  • Besides that, it is the goodliest and most pleasing Territorie of the world: for the continent is of an huge and unknowen greatnesse, and very well peopled and towned, though savagely, and the climate so wholesome, that wee had not one sicke since we touched the land here.

    The First Voyage to Roanoke. 1584. 1898

  • Lycastus and Phæstus, and Rhytium, well-inhabited cities; and others who inhabited the hundred-towned Crete.

    The Iliad of Homer (1873) 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1840

  • Gordon Brown - twin-towned with Frankenstein's monster

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Besides that, it is the goodliest and most pleasing Territorie of the world: for the continent is of an huge and vnknowen greatnesse, and very well peopled and towned, though sauagely, and the climate so wholsome, that wee had not one sicke since we touched the land here.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II. Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Dear Adam Markovitz, are you a 47 year old, never married, tiny towned gal who went in front of thousands and sang your heart out?

    Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch 2009

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