Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Abounding in or embellished with lilies.
- Resembling lilies, especially in color.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Covered with, or having many, lilies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Covered with, or having many, lilies.
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Examples
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A friend of mine suggested that "lilied" was peculiarly appropriate to form "cold nymphs chaste crowns," from its imputed power as a preserver of chastity: and in MR. HALLIWELL'S folio, several examples are quoted from old poets of "peony" spelt "piony;" and of both _peony_ and _lily_ as
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This is as old as Naaman, who was jealous for Abana and Pharpar; it is confined to no race nor country, for I know one of Scottish blood but a child of Suffolk, whose fancy still lingers about the lilied lowland waters of that shire.
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Whereas the sonata opened upon a dawn of lilied meadows, parting its slender whiteness to suspend itself over the frail and yet consistent mingling of a rustic bower of honeysuckle with white geraniums, it was upon continuous, level surfaces like those of the sea that, in the midst of a stormy morning beneath an already lurid sky, there began, in an eery silence, in an infinite void, this hew masterpiece, and it was into
The Captive 2003
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She is what I would still abhor — an name would blacken her lilied bosom and wither all the roses that spread that face of beauty!
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The splendors of the Queen's rooms in Babylon, the fretted lattices and lilied fishpond, were twelve years away; all she had of them were Stateira's casket and jewels.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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He was still staring vaguely about him when night curtained the lilied pool and the stars flashed brightly overhead.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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When the evening star flashed silver in the lilied pool, Carl sat alone.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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Surely, then, the reading of the first folio is a mere typographical error, and _peonied_ and _lilied_ the most poetical and correct.
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They cripple and distort the feet of their highborn daughters until they crush out all the power and gracefulness of nature in the artificial formation of what they term a "golden lily"; but they never expect these golden-lilied women to make their withered feet useful.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics Joel Dorman Steele
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The great object of the war was to wrest Flanders from France; when the lilied standard floated on
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various
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