cloven
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cloven
- past participle of cleave
AdjectiveEdit
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 606515358, [Act II, scene ii]:
- All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues
Do hiss me into madness—[...]
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EtymologyEdit
From Old English clofen, ġeclofen, past participle of clēofan, from Proto-Germanic *klubanaz, past participle of *kleubaną.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
cloven
- past participle of cleven (“to split”)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “clōve(n, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-31.
AdjectiveEdit
cloven
- Split, cloven, separated, divided (used of anatomical features)
DescendantsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- “clōve(n, ppl.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-31.