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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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70 words match “PATED”

Having a pate; -- used only in composition; as, long-pated; shallow-pated.

ADDLE-BRAINED; ADDLE-HEADED; ADDLE-PATED a.

Dull-witted; stupid. "The addle-brained Oberstein." Motley. Dull and addle-pated. Dryden.

ADDLE-PATEDNESS n.

APOCOPATE; APOCOPATED a.

Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form.

BALDPATE; BALDPATED a.

Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded. Shak.

Stupid; dull; doltish.

CRISPATE; CRISPATED a.

Having a crisped appearance; irregularly curled or twisted.

Ending in a point.

DISSIPATED a. 2 definitions

Squandered; scattered. "Dissipated wealth." Johnson.

FEATHER-PATED a.

Feather-headed; frivolous. [Colloq.] Sir W. Scott.

FORCIPATE; FORCIPATED a.

Like a pair of forceps; as, a forcipated mouth.

Idle-headed; stupid. [Obs.]

NOT-PATED; NOTT-PATED a.

Same as Nott-headed. [Obs.] Shak.

RATTLE-PATED a.

Rattle-headed. "A noisy, rattle-pated fellow." W. Irving.

SHALLOW-PATED a.

Shallow-brained.

SHATTER-BRAINED; SHATTER-PATED a.

Disordered or wandering in intellect; hence, heedless; wild. J. Goodman.

ANTICIPATE v. 2 definitions

ly have died by the hand of the executioner, if indeed the executioner had not been anticipated by the populace. Macaulay.

Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

Costive; constipated.

Belonging to, or participated in by, two, and involving reciprocal action or affecting their mutual relation; as, opposition between science and religion. An intestine struggle, open or secret, between authority and liberty. Hume.