sharpenedadj.
In senses of the verb.
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the world > space > shape > sharpness of edge or point > [adjective] > sharpened
sharped1340
groundena1400
whetted1563
grounded1566
well-sharpened1567
sharpened1594
society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > pitch > [adjective] > high > raised by semitone
dural1609
dure1609
sharpened1730
sharped1746
1594 Willobie his Auisa xlv. f. 42v Your wanny face & sharpened nose Shew plaine, your mind some thing mislikes.
1604 M. Drayton Moyses ii. 36 The sharpned Reed That with the fluxure of the waue is fed.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1721) I. 195 By driving a sharpened Stick into every such Hill.
1730 Short Treat. Harmony iii. 19 That would have no Sharpned or Flatned Notes.
1805–6 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno xxv. 121 He, on the earth who lay, meanwhile extends His sharpen'd visage.
a1822 P. B. Shelley Masque of Anarchy (1832) lxxiv. 38 Be your strong and simple words Keen to wound as sharpened swords.
1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. xiii. 733 With..sharpened intellect, he returned to the great field of history.
1905 H. D. Rolleston Dis. Liver 229 The face gets sharpened.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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