runed
runed adjective: inscribed with runes. Also the simple past and past participle of rune.
Adjective
runed (not comparable)
- Inscribed with runes.
- The number of these runed pieces is 95, but often several duplicate copies of the same type (and struck from the same die) have been found.1884, George Stephens, The Old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, London: Williams and Norgate, page 166
- We were on the highest point of the pass , where a deep-runed stone tells the traveller that from this spot his eye can wander over ten provinces of what the old writers called the Kingdom of Japonia.1899, Mrs. Hugh Fraser, Letters from Japan: A Record of Modern Life in the Island Empire, London: Macmillan, page 234
Also used as
runed is also the simple past and past participle of rune.
Origin of runed
From rune + -ed.
Words that rhyme with runed
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Questions about runed
- What does runed mean?
- Runed means inscribed with runes.
- What part of speech is runed?
- Runed is an adjective.
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