Lexic.us

Definition of Patterned

1. Adjective. Having patterns (especially colorful patterns).

Definition of Patterned

1. Adjective. Conform to a pattern, a model to be followed. ¹

2. Verb. (past of pattern) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Patterned

1. pattern [v] - See also: pattern

Lexicographical Neighbors of Patterned

Literary usage of Patterned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Permafrost: North American Contribution [to The] Second International by Building Research Advisory Board Staff (1973)
"They also increase the accuracy of prediction of the age of the patterned ground or surface represented.1'3 The results quantify trends in the rate of ..."

2. Wood Carving: Design and Workmanship by George Jack (1903)
"The BY a comparison of the piece of Byzantine patterned sculpture, Fig. 2O, with the more elaborate Background treatment of foliage shown in Fig. ..."

3. The Bookman (1903)
"... his feet encased in elaborately patterned yellow Turkish slippers— which led him, moreover, into a thousand eccentricities of speech and deportment. ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Their doctrine of the resurrection and of the day of vengeance and recompense was a theology patterned after the model of Judaism, and first formulated for ..."

5. The five great monarchies of the ancient Eastern world; or, The history by George Rawlinson (1871)
"... been considerable; and this both limited their size and made it diffi- Round shields or targes, patterned (Khorsabad). cult to move them with rapidity. ..."

6. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"... and Communal Code—The Prytaneum—patterned after the City—City in Theory Modeled after the Family— Authority of Dirksen—The Competitive System Reversed-— ..."

7. Heroes and Heroines of Fiction: Modern Prose and Poetry; Famous Characters by William Shepard Walsh (1914)
"Bede, Adam, the titular hero of George Eliot's novel, A dam Bede, a village carpenter of strenuous life and high ideals, who was closely patterned after the ..."

8. Spanish Ironwork by Arthur Byne, Mildred Stapley Byne (1915)
"TABLE CANDELERO patterned AFTER THE ROMAN. In the museum at Vich. XI Century. Height 14 in. TABLE CANDELERO. Catalan. In the Museum at Vich. XV Century. ..."

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