marined
English edit
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Etymology edit
marine + -ed; compare French mariné.
Verb edit
marined
- simple past and past participle of marine
Adjective edit
marined (not comparable)
- (chiefly heraldry) Having the lower part of the body like a fish.
- 1915, Guy Cadogan Rothery, A. B. C. of Heraldry, page 76:
- Some other of the marined animals deserve special attention. Sea-horses in the earliest heraldic examples closely resemble the queer fish known by that name (the hippocampus), but classic art had furnished quite another type: the forequarters of a horse, with mane and hoofs, and the hindquarters replaced by a fish's tail.
- 1924, Clark Barnaby Firestone, The Coasts of Illusion: A Study of Travel Tales, page 67:
- The menagerie of blazonry has been enlarged by representing nearly all of the animals at times with fish-tails, when they are said to be marined.
- 2012, Paul Doherty, The Poison Maiden:
- He was a marined, a merman, neither one thing nor the other.
- 2020, Laurentiu Stefan Szemkovics, Camelia Teodorescu, “Zoomorphic Shields and Motifs From the Colțea Church in Bucharest”, in Quaestus:
- The capitals of the four columns that support the wall between the pronaos and the naos (Ilieș, 1969) are decorated with acanthus leaves, with the following sculptures: the eagle holding the lamb in its claws (it symbolizes the simple man, innocence, kindness), with an angel on its flanks (the messenger of God, the guardian who watches over each man in order to keep him away from evil and to incite him to goodness) with his arms clasped onto his chest (fig. 16); a fantastic animal – marined "lion" (with the lower part of the body terminated in a fish tail, like that of the mermaids) (Pastoureau, 2008) (fig. 17).