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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of comminate.

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  • A garland of grey hair on his comminated head see him me clambering down to the footpace

    Ulysses 2003

  • A garland of grey hair on his comminated head see him me clambering down to the footpace

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

  • I was much deceived, or she had read the insidious paragraph and recognised the comminated pearl-grey suit.

    St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

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  • A garland of grey hair on his comminated head see him me clambering down to the footpace (descende), clutching a monstrance, basiliskeyed.

    Joyce, Ulysses, 3

    December 30, 2006