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Definition of Modernised
1. Adjective. Brought up to date. "Modernized methods"
Definition of Modernised
1. Verb. (past of modernise) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Modernised
1. modernise [v] - See also: modernise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Modernised
Literary usage of Modernised
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"He's gone, ere yet his lire of man was "aim, О may his crying blood be on your
head2! ELEANORA AXD JUGA, modernised BY SWA AGED -l\ niV [From the Town and ..."
2. A History of Nursery Rhymes by Percy B. Green (1899)
"A modernised lullaby of a Polish mother bears traces in the last stanza of a
quasi- native worship— " Shine, stars, God's sentinels on high, Proclaimers of ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Inis author afterwards considerably modernised his poems, by removing many of
the obsolete words. In the latest edition, instead of the above lines, ..."
4. Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers.: To which is Added Porsoniana by Samuel Rogers, Alexander Dyce, William Maltby (1856)
"The lines of Dryden which I have just quoted (and which are modernised from
Chaucer) were great favourites with Sheridan; I seem now to hear him reciting ..."
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