skeletonianadj.
rare.
Pertaining to or resembling a skeleton; skeletal.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > drawn up in outline
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skeleton > [adjective]
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1801 R. Wardlaw Let. in Life (1856) iii. 51 The skeletonian method of sermonising.
1879 Temple Bar Oct. 258 His skeletonian hands outstretched, his parched lips suing for mercy.
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