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refracted, ppl. a.|rɪˈfræktɪd|
[f. refract v. + -ed1.]
1. Of light, etc.: Bent aside, deflected. Also transf. of things connected with, or produced by, refraction.
1638–48G. Daniel Eclog iii. 352 Homeward wend, Whilst the refracted West some Lights yet lend. 1678Vaughan Thalia Rediv., Pious Th. 212 Whose fires by refracted chance Burnish some neighbour rock. 1691Norris Pract. Disc. 244 We look upon Truth..by a refracted Ray, which makes it to appear where it is not. 1740Somerville Hobbinol iii. 292 She darts along, and with refracted Rays Paints the gay Clouds. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. (1791) 133 O'er heavens wide arch refracted lustres flow. 1831Brewster Optics iii. 22 The ray HR is called the incident ray, and R b the refracted ray. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) II. i. i. 7 Life is not light but the refracted color.
fig.1654H. L'Estrange Chas. I (1655) 146 The information being somewhat lame, as being taken upon refracted and second hand report. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 230 According to Swedenborg, all the mythology and the symbolisms of ancient times were so many refracted or fragmentary correspondences.
†b. refracted angle, angle of refraction. Obs.
1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Refracted Angle, in Opticks, is the Angle contained between the refracted Ray and the Perpendicular. 1797Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3) XIII. 234/1 Before this time Kepler had published a New Table of refracted Angles.
†2. Driven back, repelled. Obs. rare—1.
1635Swan Spec. M. v. §2 (1643) 169 [The wind] with a refracted and disjoynted force..is driven hither and thither.
†3. Broken down, diminished. Obs. rare—1.
1639Fuller Holy War ii. xxxv. (1840) 96 If they [mercenary soldiers] be not entertained in too great numbers, but in such refracted degrees, that the natives may still have the predominancy.
Hence reˈfractedly adv., reˈfractedness.
1667Sprat Hist. R. Soc. 216 Experiments of the Transparency, and Refractedness of Flames. 1854Kingsley Alexandria 67 Even if he sees a truth, he can only see it refractedly. |