Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
cornute .
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cornute . - adjective Bearing
horns ;horned . - adjective Horn-shaped.
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Examples
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How deemest thou of yonder cornuted, who is drunken in his heedlessness and weeteth not the wiles of women?
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Uxorem sed habes Candide cum populo; but neighbour Candidus your wife is common: husband and cuckold in that age it seems were reciprocal terms; the emperors themselves did wear Actaeon's badge; how many Caesars might I reckon up together, and what a catalogue of cornuted kings and princes in every story?
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Scilicet boni dimidium dividere cum Jove, it never troubles me (saith Amphitrio) to be cornuted by
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He caused so many peeces of silver to be cunningly guilded, as then went for currant mony in Florence, and called Popolines, and after he had lyen with the Lady (contrary to her will and knowledge, her husband had so closely carried the businesse) the money was duely paid to the cornuted Coxcombe.
The Decameron 2004
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_The Town being diverted of late with a great many Comforts, several of the Gentlemen and others of the cornuted Society belonging to
The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses from Men Various
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Literally to crown all, his ruddy hair was twisted upward from each temple in a cornuted fashion that was most vividly picturesque.
The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906
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I have been, in return, telling him the story of the Irish schoolmaster who puzzled the magistrate's bench by a petition about a small cornuted animal, meaning a kid.
Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Otherwise, if every one was free to marry according to fancy, how many cornuted marriages would there not be?
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He avoided marriage and friendship; namely, he was neither plundered nor cornuted.
Paul Clifford — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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None of those bell-girdles, bushel-breeches, cornuted shoes, or other the like phenomena, of which the History of
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Thomas Carlyle 1838
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