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ˈvowelled, ppl. a.
[f. vowel n. or v. + -ed.]
Of language or words: Supplied or provided with vowels, esp. to an unusual extent. Also with qualifying term, as well-vowelled.
1662Playford Skill Mus. i. xi. (1674) 56 The Italian Language is more smooth and better vowelled than the English. 1684Dryden To Earl of Roscommon 17 Pauses, cadence, and well-vowell'd Words. 1792A. Seward Lett. (1811) III. 142 My own exquisitely rich and harmonious language; the growing Latinity of which has already..rendered it sufficiently vowelled, sufficiently sweet, copious, and sonorous. 1820Keats Lamia ii. 200 While fluent Greek a vowel'd under-song Kept up. 1860Farrar Orig. Lang. 67 The soft and vowelled undersong of modern Italian. 1869Meredith Lett. 19 Dec. (1912) I. 198 Isn't there a scent of damned hypocrisy in all this lisping and vowelled purity of the Idylls? 1883Blackw. Mag. Oct. 431/2 By melodious juxtaposition, by artful alliteration, by vowelled breathings and consonantal crashes of harmony.
b. Having vowels of a specified kind or quality.
1783J. Beattie Diss. 293 The long-vowelled emphatick syllable..and the short-vowelled emphatick syllable. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. 61 As full vowelled words Are new impregnate with the master's thought.
c. nonce-uses. (See quots.)
1873–4G. M. Hopkins Jrnls. & Papers (1959) 287 In Norse poetry..the vowels..seen to be sided or intentionally changed, vowelled off. 1934Dylan Thomas in Listener 24 Oct. 691/2 Some let me make you of the vowelled beeches. |