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ethosed

UK/ˈiːθɒst/

ethosed adjective: possessed of a particular ethos.

Adjective

ethosed (not comparable)

  1. (nonstandard, rare) Possessed of a particular ethos.
    • 2003: “Jesse James Jensen”, alt.politics (Google group): Liberal Bigots Will Call Her a “House Nigger”, the 3ʳᵈ day of November at 9:59pm
      We have a lot of wars to keep track of at the moment, but I’m pretty sure I would have remembered one against an out-moded Victorian-ethosed semi-religious...
    • We would argue that the relative positioning of differentially ‘ethosed’ schools is more concerned with product identity in the educational market place than with the redistribution of access to the structure of educational opportunities.2005, Roy Gardner, Denis Lawton, and Jo Cairns, Faith schools: consensus or conflict?, Routledge, →ISBN, page 97

Origin of ethosed

From ethos + -ed.

Questions about ethosed

What does ethosed mean?
Ethosed means possessed of a particular ethos.
What part of speech is ethosed?
Ethosed is an adjective.
How do you pronounce ethosed?
Ethosed is pronounced /ˈiːθɒst/ (UK).

Words near ethosed in the dictionary

  1. ethoprop
  2. ethopropazine
  3. ethos
  4. ethoscope
  5. ethoscopes
  6. ethosed
  7. ethoses
  8. ethosome
  9. ethosomes
  10. ethospecies
  11. ethosulfate

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