incisedadj.
/ɪnˈsʌɪzd/ 1.
a. Cut into, having an incision made in it; marked by cutting.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > cutting > [adjective] > cut
hacked?1440
ripped1552
bemangled1570
cut1594
woundedc1595
haggled1598
incised1598
gashed1602
hackled1611
carbonadoeda1616
gashya1625
sleft1627
mangled1779
haggly1825
1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 20 b/1 Thrust cleane through the incisede skinne.
1740 W. Ellis Suppl. to London & Country Brewer vi. 39 The best Staple incis'd Isinglass, two Ounces.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 80 No inflammation could be traced on the margin of the incised gums.
1853 G. Tate Addr. Berwick. Naturalists' Club Sketches of incised rocks at Ford and Bewick.
b. Botany and Zoology. Having marginal notches, as if cut or slashed; as a leaf or an insect's wing. Also in combination = inciso- comb. form, as in incised-crenate.
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the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > indentation or cavity > [adjective] > notch or indentation
laciniated1657
incisory1693
lacerated1709
crenelled1727
emarginated1731
laciniate1760
lacerate1776
crenate1785
crenulate1785
emarginate1785
erose1793
crenulated1807
incised1826
fimbricate1846
1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. IV. 295 Incised, cut into equal marginal segments.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 292 Lamium album..leaves..rarely deeply incised.
1870 J. D. Hooker Student's Flora Brit. Islands 294 Teucrium chamædrys; leaves petioled ovate incised-crenate.
1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. iii. §4. 98 The blade [of a leaf] is said to be Incised, when cut by sharp and irregular incisions more or less deeply.
2. Produced by cutting or incision; engraved.
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the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced > formed or constructed > formed by cutting
well-cut1578
cut1677
rock-hewn1781
incised1807
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > sculpture or carving > incising or intaglio > [adjective]
written?1440
engraven1583
lapidary1724
intagliated1782
engraileda1806
incised1807
lapideous1807
graven1821
descript1863
lapidarian1864
pointillé1884
1807 S. Cooper First Lines Pract. Surg. I. i. xiv. 61 An incised wound, made with a clean, sharp instrument,..can..have no foreign bodies in it.
1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxi. 244 The ornaments on the armour are simply drawn with incised lines.
1879 J. Lubbock Addresses, Polit. & Educ. ix. 173 Two stones, with incised crosses.
3. Geology. Of the channel of a stream, esp. a meander: cut abnormally deeply into underlying deposits or bedrock. Also, of a landform: cut by channels.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > erosion or weathering > [adjective] > cutting channel or hole
stream-cut1626
mining1816
incised1898
1898 W. M. Davis & W. H. Snyder Physical Geogr. ix. 254 Incised meanders and cut-off spurs occur on the Allegheny river above Pittsburg.
1906 Bull. Geogr. Soc. Philadelphia 4 iv. 1 (heading) Incised meandering valleys.
1906 Bull. Geogr. Soc. Philadelphia 4 iv. 9 The Potomac river..exhibits some well-defined incised meanders in a valley of monoclinal strata.
1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. xi. 198 In Utah, where recent uplift has made possible the development of many deeply incised meanders.., there are several examples of such arches.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 332/2 (caption) Incised etchplain.
1968 R. W. Fairbridge Encycl. Geomorphol. 548/2 A meandering river valley that has cut down its bed into the bedrock, because of uplift or lowered base level, is called incised, intrenched, entrenched, inclosed or ingrown.
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incised
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