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ˈcrowded, ppl. a.
[f. crowd v.1 + -ed.]
1. a. Filled with or thronged by a crowd.
1612Drayton Poly-olb. xvii. (R.), His crowded wharfs, and people-pest'red shores. 1637Bastwick Litany i. 5 They cry out in open Courts and the Crowdedst assemblies. 1727–46Thomson Summer 65 And from the crouded fold, in order, drives His flock. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 4 Sixteen hundred substantial burghers well armed..kept order in the crowded streets.
b. fig. Full of events or experience of life.
1791T. O. Mordaunt in Bee 12 Oct. 179 One crouded hour of glorious life Is worth an age without a name. 1957F. King Widow iii. iii. 317 The busy and crowded years in India. 1971Times 21 Jan. 10/4 He [sc. Compton Mackenzie] records a crowded old age in which flow of writing is as non-stop as social life.
2. Gathered, pressed, or clustered closely together.
1725Pope Odyss. x. 106 Our eager sailors..bound within the port their crouded fleet. 1823Scoresby Jrnl. 240 We doubled the western point among very crowded ice. 1888Pall Mall G. 2 July 11/1 There was a crowded audience each night.
Hence ˈcrowdedly adv., ˈcrowdedness.
1846Dana Zooph. (1848) 131 Exterior crowdedly papillose. 1823Blackw. Mag. XIII. 698 The pettiness and crowdedness of its ruins. 1895W. Schlich Man. Forestry III. 181 As long as the degree of crowdedness is not too great. 1920M. Webb House in Dormer Forest i. vi. 65 The phrase pleased him because of its crowdedness. 1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 67, I long to see its [sc. the world's] chock-full crowdedness. 1930O. Lodge in Aberdeen Press & Jrnl. 9 Sept. 6/2 The great crowdedness of space. |