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Definition of Contorted
1. Adjective. Twisted (especially as in pain or struggle). "My writhen features"
Definition of Contorted
1. a. Twisted, or twisted together.
Definition of Contorted
1. Verb. (past of contort) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contorted
1. contort [v] - See also: contort
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contorted
Literary usage of Contorted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geological History of Lake Lahontan: A Quaternary Lake of Northwestern Nevada by Israel Cook Russell (1885)
"contorted STRATA. The folded and contorted appearance presented by many sedimentary
beds may originate in two ways; either they were deposited in a ..."
2. Structural and Field Geology for Students of Pure and Applied Science by James Geikie (1905)
"... which must originally have been horizontally disposed, are now frequently
inclined, and even flexed, folded, and contorted. These and other superinduced ..."
3. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"contorted beds; clay c, and sand s: Leith. (Depth of cutting 6 it., J. Croll.)
direction. The beds, in short, were shown to be curved over in the direction ..."
4. Bulletin by Geological Survey of Georgia (1902)
"THE LITHONIA AREA OF contorted GRANITE-GNEISS In the immediate vicinity of Lithonia
and to ... It is prevailingly highly contorted and usually thin banded, ..."
5. The Geological Observer. by Sir Henry Thomas de la Beche (1851)
"As illustrative of variation in the dip of the cleavage, and of the true beds
seen vertically, and especially when the latter are contorted, the following ..."
6. Catalogue of Section One of the Museum of the Geological Survey, Embracing by George Christian Hoffmann (1893)
"contorted mica slate. -Falls of the River du*Loup, Beauce county, Q.—Coll., ARC
Selwyn. ... contorted band of quartz in limestone.—South half of lot 17, ..."
7. Researches in Theoretical Geology by Henry Thomas De La Beche (1837)
"When, therefore, we find contorted strata on the surface of dry land, we know
that they are not now in the same relative position in which they were so ..."
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