digammatedadj.
/dʌɪˈɡamətɪd/ 1. Spelt with or having the digamma.
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digammated1803
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1803 Edinb. Rev. July 315 The conjunction ἰδὲ, and,..is a digammated word.
1805 Valpy Grk. Gram. (1818) 151 A short Syllable is often made long when the next word begins with a digammated vowel.
1863 J. Hadley Ess. (1873) iv. 56 It is more than forty years since Richard Payne Knight published in 1820 his famous digammated Iliad.
1882 R. C. Jebb Life Bentley 152 The number of digammated roots in Homer is between thirty and forty.
2. Formed with a figure like the digamma, as the digammated cross, a phallic symbol.
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