Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a beacon.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
beacon .
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Examples
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Lights beaconed from several places near the summit and one set seemed to stand several hundred meters above that.
The Lensman's Children Fred Kiesche 2010
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Lights beaconed from several places near the summit and one set seemed to stand several hundred meters above that.
Archive 2010-03-01 Fred Kiesche 2010
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I find you guilty of violating Solar System Statute 2375.329 for exceeding the beaconed speed limit, and for reckless flying within the ecliptic.
365 tomorrows » 2006 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day 2006
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No, if other things as great in the Church, and in the rule of life both economical and political, be not looked into and reformed, we have looked so long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin hath beaconed up to us, that we are stark blind.
Areopagitica 2007
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No, if other things as great in the Church, and in the rule of life both economical and political, be not looked into and reformed, we have looked so long upon the blaze that Zuinglius and Calvin hath beaconed up to us, that we are stark blind.
Areopagitica 2007
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At friendly meetings, and when the wine was to his taste, something eminently human beaconed from his eye; something indeed which never found its way into his talk, but which spoke not only in these silent symbols of the after-dinner face, but more often and loudly in the acts of his life.
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Was beaconed, — and the glare struck the sun pale, —
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They had caught a glimpse of the landing stage and set down there, perhaps beaconed in by the torch left in the hut, which meant they no longer hunted by scope-or they would have known that for a decoy.
Dark Piper Norton, Andre 1968
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With sudden reviving the daze went out of her features and the old light came back to her eyes, the far-seeing, undaunted light that had beaconed the long way from Grand Portage.
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The new channel at Central Island -- which opened out and was beaconed and lighted this time last year -- maintains its depth unassisted by dredging operations, and appears to be improving.
Report on the Department of Ports and Harbours for the Year 1890-91 Australia. Queensland. Department of Ports and Harbours
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