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Definition of Trampled
1. trample [v] - See also: trample
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trampled
Literary usage of Trampled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Vision of William Concerning Piers Plowman: Together with Vita de Dowel by William Langland, Walter William Skeat (1884)
"... pt. i>l. trampled on, subdued, 18. ... pp. trampled on, a. 2. 138. ' Défouler,
to tread or trample on, also, to rebuke, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"... in measured terms the unjust persecution of the quakers. there were many mighty
in wisdom, and weak ones would suffer the truth to be trampled on. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"The stern Ricimer, who trampled on the ruins of Italy, had exercised the power,
without assuming the title, of a king ; and the patient Romans were ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... devastated, trampled under foot by these men of the North, suddenly, like
Greece of yore, took possession of the rude conquerors. ..."