travested
travested adjective: disguised; degraded; debased. Also the simple past and past participle of travest.
Adjective
travested (comparative more travested, superlative most travested)
- Disguised; degraded; debased.
- Our Traveſted Baroneſs had ſtill at that time above twelve Thouſand Livers, in Gems, and Jewels about her.1684, anonymous author, Eve Revived, or The fair One Stark-Naked, London: […] Wiltam Downang, page 84
- Mr. Smith says, that the President was educated to worship the Constitution. Nay; but to worship a travested, falsified and mutilated thing called the Constitution, as differerent from the real Constitution of the U.S., as impartial liberty is from the chattel slave gystem.1862 February, C. Stuart, “Gerrit Smith's Letter to Mr. Croswell”, in Douglass' Monthly, volume IV, number IX, page 597
Also used as
travested is also the simple past and past participle of travest.
Examples of travested in a sentence
- *The analysis of dreams, which is so travested by the Freudians, is an important and interesting part of psychology.1920, Knight Dunlap, Mysticism, Freudianism and Scientific Psychology, St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, page 80:
- The truth is that the child is not ‘like a boy,’ and that if you put him into a coat and waistcoat forthwith, he only would look like a small angel travested.1995, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, edited by Julia Markus, Dared and Done: The Marriage of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning, Alfred A....
Forms of travested
| comparative | more travested |
|---|---|
| superlative | most travested |
Questions about travested
- What does travested mean?
- Travested means disguised; degraded; debased.
- How do you use travested in a sentence?
- *The analysis of dreams, which is so travested by the Freudians, is an important and interesting part of psychology.
- What part of speech is travested?
- Travested is an adjective.
Words near travested in the dictionary
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