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Definition of Cloven
1. Adjective. (used of hooves) split, divided. "Bisulcate hoof"
Definition of Cloven
1. p. p. & a. from Cleave,
Definition of Cloven
1. Verb. (past participle of cleave) ¹
2. Adjective. Split or divided. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cloven
1. split; divided [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cloven
Literary usage of Cloven
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1840)
"Some would-be wise people, our historian affirms, have endeavored to make divers
improvements upon this doctrine of the cloven foot, treating it as ..."
2. The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot (1860)
"Don't look away from me to that cloven tree; it is a bad omen." She turned her
large dark glance upon him with a sad smile. " Come, Maggie, say one kind ..."
3. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1890)
""He observed one of the black man's feet to be cloven, and that the black man's
apparel was black, and that he had a blue band about his neck, ..."
4. A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands by William Turton (1819)
"... and the colored marks are generally crowded towards the elongated end ; the
middle tooth only is cloven ; the lateral ones being thin. ae mostly on one ..."
5. Ninety-six Sermons by Lancelot Andrewes (1850)
"And there appeared tongues cloven as they had been of fire, and sat upon each of
them. ... And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, ..."
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