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Definition of Kittened
1. kitten [v] - See also: kitten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kittened
Literary usage of Kittened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"After a time she looked up at me, and said out loud— "I suppose you have heard
that Archy's cat has kittened ? " " Oh, yes, it has," she said. ..."
2. The Science of Thought by Friedrich Max Müller (1887)
"has happened," the people say " The cat has kittened." For instance, " And so it
happened ... Afore he went says ho to me, ' The cat's kittened somewhere. ..."
3. The Works of the Rev. John Wesley by John Wesley (1810)
"He had two cats with kitten at once, one of which was the mother of the other,
and kittened three weeks before her: but she would not suffer one of her ..."
4. The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. by John Wesley (1840)
"... for its oddness :—He had two cats with kitten at once ; one of which was the
mother of the other, and kittened three weeks before her. ..."
5. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"I have never seen a short-tailed cat; but I have heard that the Isle of Man boasts
a breed of mousers kittened without that decent and graceful ornament. ..."
6. London Encyclopaedia; Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art, Literature by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"A young cat : to bring forth young cats. So it would have done At the same season,
if your mother's cat liad kittened, though yourself had ne'er been horn. ..."
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