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aculeated, ppl. a.|əˈkjuːlɪeɪtɪd|
[f. prec. with the ppl. ending -ed, after analogy of the later pples. from vbs. in -ate.]
1. Nat. Hist. Pointed, sharpened to a needle-like point; armed with prickles.
1681Willis Rem. Med. Wks., Aculeated, Made sharp and prickly like a needles point. 1713Derham Physico-Theol. iv. xi. 19 The mouth is..in some [insects] aculeated; to pierce and wound Animals, and suck their Blood. 1774Bryant Mythol. I. 344 The murex is of the turbinated kind, and particularly aculeated; having strong and sharp protuberances.
2. fig. Pointed, incisive, keen, pungent.
1655Lestrange Charles I, 71, A man of an acute but aculeated wit. 1813Knox & Jebb Corr. II. 170 The apothegms..and aculeated sayings of the ancients are inestimable. 1839De Quincey Recoll. of Lakes Wks. 1862 II. 233, A trenchant, pungent, aculeated form of terse, glittering, stenographic sentences. |
