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exploded, ppl. a.|ɛkˈspləʊdɛd|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb.
†1. That has been hissed off the stage. Obs.
1713Swift Cadenus & V. Wks. 1755 III. ii. 13 Fustian from exploded plays. 1779–81Johnson L.P., Pope Wks. IV. 81 After the Three Hours after Marriage had been driven off the stage..while the exploded scene was yet fresh in memory.
2. a. Held in contempt; rejected, scouted. Also in weaker sense, disused, out of fashion. (Said of customs, opinions, etc.; rarely of persons.)
1626Massinger Rom. Actor iv. ii, To put in an exploded plea In the court of Venus. 1710Steele Tatler No. 58 ⁋2 A Thing so exploded as speaking hard Words. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 36 A conflict with some of those exploded fanatics of slavery. 1793Beddoes Catarrh 160 The exploded theories of Boerhaave or Cullen. 1868Milman St. Paul's xix. 486 When mercy was on all sides an exploded virtue, he dared to be merciful. 1879McCarthy Own Times II. xxiii. 185 The time..had gone by when such exploded politics could even interest the people.
†b. Of a material object: Discarded, disused; out of fashion. Obs.
1823Lamb Elia Ser. i. xviii. 194 The little cool playful streams those exploded cherubs uttered. 1829The Bengallee 169 An old Dowager's now exploded pair of pockets.
†3. Driven forth with violence and sudden noise.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey vi. i, The exploded cork whizzed through the air.
4. a. In sense 6 of the verb.
1858Greener Gunnery 209 Conical form being best suited..to the action of the exploded fluid.
fig.1876Holland Sev. Oaks viii. 109 It had been..occupied for a year or two by an exploded millionaire.
b. Of a model or illustrated technical drawing: showing all the separate components as if ‘exploded’ from the complete unit but retaining their relative positions.
1947H. C. Elliott Textbk. Nerv. Syst. p. xi/2 New features are encountered..; among these is a simplified form of the ‘exploded diagram’. 1949Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. LIII. 60/2 They had to study the exploded drawing of the components. 1951Engineering 13 July 33/2 An ‘exploded’ model shows the layout of a pit head. 1962Corson & Lorrain Introd. Electromagn. Fields ii. 42 The exploded view shows one of the volume elements in detail. |