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cataphracted

cataphracted adjective: covered with, or wearing, a cataphract.

Adjective

cataphracted (not comparable)

  1. Covered with, or wearing, a cataphract.
    • The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 121

Origin of cataphracted

From cataphract + -ed.

Questions about cataphracted

What does cataphracted mean?
Cataphracted means covered with, or wearing, a cataphract.
What part of speech is cataphracted?
Cataphracted is an adjective.

Words near cataphracted in the dictionary

  1. cataphoric
  2. cataphorical
  3. cataphorically
  4. cataphors
  5. cataphract
  6. cataphracted
  7. cataphractic
  8. cataphracts
  9. cataphyll
  10. cataphyllaries
  11. cataphyllary

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