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Definition of Suckled
1. Adjective. (of an infant) breast-fed.
Definition of Suckled
1. Verb. (past of suckle) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Suckled
1. suckle [v] - See also: suckle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Suckled
Literary usage of Suckled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pausanias's Description of Greece by Pausanias (1898)
"22) : the infant Zeus is being suckled by a she-goat; on either side is a tree;
above is an eagle with outspread wings Paus. p. 85 sq., with pi. R xiv. ..."
2. Sessional Papers by Canada Parliament (1901)
"suckled dam. Dam showed no reaction in two last testa. No. ... suckled by dam ;
calved in September, 1899 ; dam reacted in both tests. No. 8. ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"... as the term used to designate a she-wolf, in this manner the sceptics accounted
for the marvellous story of the sons of Rhea being suckled by a wolf. ..."
4. The Travels and Researches of Alexander Von Humboldt: Being a Condensed by Alexander von Humboldt, William MacGillivray (1869)
"... Impossible—Aspect of the Vegetation—San Fernando- Account of a Man who suckled a
... suckled ..."
5. A Dictionary of Roman and Greek Antiquities with Nearly 2000 Engravings on by Anthony Rich (1874)
"It thus formed the original type of the aegis, as worn by Jupiter and Minerva,
which was made out of the goat Amalthea, which suckled Jupiter in his infancy ..."
6. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... Whom Osset rocks, with sweet Hesperian song, And looks of love, babe suckled
in the wars. ... suckled ..."
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