Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Wearing a panoply or full suit of armor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Dressed in panoply.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Dressed in
panoply ; splendidly displayed.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective equipped with the complete arms and armor of a warrior
- adjective in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia
Etymologies
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Examples
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"'Full-panoplied from the head of Jove,' Lizzie," she said.
Tish 1916
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a moral one; it is kept in conformity with final authority by the machinery of appeal; it is "animated with a common purpose"; its members are "panoplied" with what is practically a life tenure of their posts; and it is "armed with the tremendous weapons" which slay legislation.
John Marshall and the Constitution; a chronicle of the Supreme court Edward Samuel Corwin 1920
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Japan swiftly assimilated the Western ideas, and digested them, and so capably applied them that she suddenly burst forth, full-panoplied,
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And as for me, I too capped my bitter scorn and laughter, remembered the prison houses of old Babylon, smiled to myself a huge cosmic smile, and drifted off and away into the largeness of the little death that made me heir of all the ages and the rider full-panoplied and astride of time.
Chapter 20 2010
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“Ah! Agatha, one word from your lips, such as I long to hear, would make me feel that I could chain victory to my sword, and rush into the midst of battle panoplied against every harm.”
La Vend�e 2004
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Apart from that, it mentioned, in terms of unreserved admiration, the energetic character of Dr. Ferguson, and the heart, thrice panoplied in bronze, that could conceive and undertake such an enterprise.
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Philip on his big steady horse was riding near by; he, also, panoplied for war.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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Standing at the King's right hand, flamboyantly panoplied, he knew that he looked impressive; but he knew too, all too well, what a soldier thinks when the chief to whom he has come for orders speaks through an intermediary and never looks him in the face.
Funeral Games Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1981
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He moves heavily, as if he were panoplied for conflict rather than girt for useful work.
Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967
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"I dare say she would laugh in my face," thought he; "I don't know but that she would in any man's face who should ask her," and, armed and panoplied in this resolution, Dr. Eben walked up to the spot where Hetty sat under one of the old Balm of Gilead trees sewing, with the baby in its cradle at her feet.
Hetty's Strange History Anonymous
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