mummiedadj.
/ˈmʌmɪd/, U.S. /ˈməmid/ 1.
a. Mummified; embalmed as a mummy; †transformed into mummy (obsolete).
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the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > [adjective] > mummifying > mummified
mummied1611
mummified1803
1611 H. Peacham in T. Coryate Crudities sig. k4v Thinke them happy, when may be shew'd for a penny.., The Mummied Princes, and Cæsars wine yet i' Douer.
1652 E. Benlowes Theophila xii. lviii. 226 Lord, how thy Spouse turns mummy'd Earth! her Gore a Floud!
1801 R. Wilson Diary 4 July in Life Gen. Sir R. Wilson (1862) I. iv. 198 We first descended into the catacombs of birds... Here we saw millions of mummied birds—the feathers in many remaining perfect.
1842 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zanoni v. i The mummied and royal dead.
1900 O. Thomas in W. M. F. Petrie Dendereh 59/1 Cercopithecus sabæus Linn. One mummied specimen.
1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xii. 159 The mummied skeleton of a king's daughter long ago untimely dead.
1929 S. Leslie Anglo-Catholic i. 2 Ghastly mummied saints in silver coffins.
1998 Independent (Nexis) 3 July 10 The mummied faces, so clearly different from the Mongoloid features of the East, challenged the traditional view that Chinese culture had developed in isolation.
b. In extended use.
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1746 A. Hill Art of Acting i. 20 The big, broad, round, mellow, trundling Troll, That..Half swells—then sinks like Sails of Ships becalm'd, A dry, dead, Sweet—Man's mummied Voice embalm'd.
1835 New-Eng. Mag. Jan. 57 The work of yet preserving the rotten mummied religion of the cursed and vulgar holy bible.
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. vi. 117 They were the mummied heath-bells of the past summer, originally tender and purple, now washed colourless.
2. Of a fruit: = mummified adj. 4.
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the world > plants > disease or injury > [adjective] > of or having fungal disease
rustyc1503
smutty1597
smutched1620
slaina1642
smutty1667
sooty1697
rusted1763
spurred1763
smutted1766
leaf spot1846
fly-speck1855
ergotized1860
tagged1892
mummied1893
mummified1895
conky1905
rhynchosporium1918
Alternaria1924
Sigatoka1925
pasmo1926
sclerotinia1926
oak wilt1942
silver-leaf1946
wildfire1971
1893 Bot. Gaz. 18 88 When a mummied fruit is placed in the most chamber, it not infrequently happens that it fails to produce spore-chains.
1909 B. M. Duggar Fungous Dis. Plants xi. 190 These mummied fruits are the chief sources of infection the following season.
1935 Bull. Min. Agric. & Fish. 88 1 A fruit so infected [with a fungus of the genus Sclerotinia], instead of disintegrating becomes dried up and ‘mummied’.
1950 L. E. Hawker Physiol. Fungi v. 137 The perfect or apothecial stage..develops later on the dead or ‘mummied’ fruit.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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