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gemmed

gemmed adjective: adorned with, or as with, gems. Also the simple past and past participle of gem.

Adjective

gemmed (comparative more gemmed, superlative most gemmed)

  1. Adorned with, or as with, gems.
    • After dark it was a beautiful sight to look down on our rudders, from which rushed eddying streams of phosphoric light gemmed with whirling sparks of fire. It resembled (more nearly than anything else to which I can compare it) one of the large irregular nebulous star-clusters seen through a good...1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 167
    • The linkage of northern and southern Christian concerns is evident in the oldest surviving great golden and gemmed altar frontal with historiated narratives in Sant'Ambrogio in Milan, commissioned between 824 and 859 in an area fairly recently absorbed into Carolingian control2011, Ian Levy, Gary Macy, Kristen Van Ausdall, A Companion to the Eucharist in the Middle Ages, page 251

Also used as

gemmed is also the simple past and past participle of gem.

Forms of gemmed

comparativemore gemmed
superlativemost gemmed

Origin of gemmed

From gem + -ed.

Words formed from gemmed

Questions about gemmed

What does gemmed mean?
Gemmed means adorned with, or as with, gems.
What part of speech is gemmed?
Gemmed is an adjective.

Words near gemmed in the dictionary

  1. gemmates
  2. gemmating
  3. gemmation
  4. gemmations
  5. gemmative
  6. gemmed
  7. gemmel
  8. Gemmell
  9. Gemmells
  10. gemmels
  11. gemmen

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