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chrysalised

chrysalised adjective: encased in a chrysalis or as if in a chrysalis. Also the simple past and past participle of chrysalis.

Adjective

chrysalised (not comparable)

  1. Encased in a chrysalis or as if in a chrysalis.
    • But there is a faëry always folded away in our souls, like a bright butterfly chrysalised, and sailing eastward, layer after layer of propriety, moderation, deference to public opinion, safety of sentiment, and all the thick crusts of compromise and convention roll away, and bending southward up...1862, G[eorge] W[illiam] Curtis, Nile Notes of a “Howadji;” or, The American in Egypt, London: […] Henry Vizetelly, […]. Clarke & Co., […], page 86
    • For here we crawl awhile, and feed, and weave a little web, / Anon, when chrysalised in death, to be our strait cocoon: / For each man’s works that follow him, do clothe him in their meshes, / He hath wrought out for himself his robe of shame or honour.1870, Martin F[arquhar] Tupper, “Proverbial Philosophy.—V.”, in The Quiver: An Illustrated Magazine for Sunday and General Reading, volume V, London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin; and […] New York...

Also used as

chrysalised is also the simple past and past participle of chrysalis.

Examples of chrysalised in a sentence

  • The furled sails were chrysalised butterflies, not yet ready for their day, shut away until the moment when they would leap forth in all their surprising beauty.1950, John Frederic Gibson, Memory Bay, New York, N.Y.; London; Toronto, Ont.: Longmans, Green and Co, page 67:
  • In this instance the sinister chrysalised pupa – an image which had been used by the Librans in the past – represented a symbolic play on the word ‘bug’.1999, J[ames] M. H. Lovegrove, Berserker (The Guardians; 2), Millennium, →ISBN, page 46:
  • Baptised, not evangelised, / the chrysalised butterfly / spreads wings dappled / with bloody specks, and / mates with clouds, / Rapturous.2010, Benjamin Thomas, Fragments: the UOW Collection, →ISBN, page 128:
  • In a surviving photograph, she’s chrysalised in a huge black silk dress.2020, George Prochnik, Heinrich Heine: Writing the Revolution, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 250:

Forms of chrysalised

alternative formchrysalissed

Origin of chrysalised

From chrysalis + -ed.

Questions about chrysalised

What does chrysalised mean?
Chrysalised means encased in a chrysalis or as if in a chrysalis.
How do you use chrysalised in a sentence?
The furled sails were chrysalised butterflies, not yet ready for their day, shut away until the moment when they would leap forth in all their surprising beauty.
What part of speech is chrysalised?
Chrysalised is an adjective.

Words near chrysalised in the dictionary

  1. chrysalid
  2. chrysalides
  3. chrysalids
  4. chrysaline
  5. chrysalis
  6. chrysalised
  7. chrysalises
  8. chrysalising
  9. chrysalism
  10. chrysalissed
  11. chrysalisses

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