cloven
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cloven
- past participle of cleave
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cloven
- Split, sundered, or divided.
- 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness—[...]
- 2020, “Seeing God”, performed by The Acacia Strain and Aaron Heard:
- Children of the cloven hooves / Bathe the cross in your father's blood
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Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Causative form of clieven, from Old Dutch *clievan, from Proto-Germanic *kleubaną. Related to Middle English cleven and Middle High German klieben.
Verb edit
cloven
- (transitive) to cleave, to cut
- c. 1475, Des Heiligen Cyrilli Apologi morales:
- Waerom is dijn claeuwe geclooft?
- Why is your claw cleaved?
- (transitive) to split
- (transitive) to separate
- (transitive) to isolate
- Synonym: sonderen
- (intransitive) to break, to become split
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Further reading edit
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “cloven”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
- “cloven”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Middle English edit
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Etymology edit
From Old English clofen, ġeclofen, past participle of clēofan, from Proto-Germanic *klubanaz, past participle of *kleubaną.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
cloven
- past participle of cleven (“to split”)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “clōve(n, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-31.
Adjective edit
cloven
- Split, cloven, separated, divided (used of anatomical features)
Descendants edit
References edit
- “clōve(n, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-31.