Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
carious .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word cariated.
Examples
-
When flames out of the clouds burned down your cariated teeth,
rolig commented on the word cariated
Used in the sense of "decrepit", "decaying":
"This time, I started out again, with the misconception common to Anglo-Saxons, that the real Rome is the Rome of the ugly ruins, the Rome of all those grey cariated temples wedged in between the hills and the slums of the city."
– Thomas Merton, The Seven-Storey Mountain (1948)
October 11, 2015