encrimsoned

English

Etymology

From encrimson + -ed.

Verb

encrimsoned

  1. simple past tense and past participle of encrimson

Adjective

encrimsoned (comparative more encrimsoned, superlative most encrimsoned)

  1. Dyed crimson; reddened.
    • 1811 July 4, Henry A[lexander] S[cammell] Dearborn, An Oration, Pronounced at Boston, on the Fourth Day of July, 1811, before the Supreme Executive and in the Presence of the Bunker-Hill Association, Boston, Mass.: Printed by Munroe & French, printer to the state, OCLC 4408205, pages 4–5:
      The inflexible advocate[s] of the people's rights, were either expelled the Senate Chamber, ostracised, or immolated on the reeking altars of patriotism, by the encrimsoned sword of slaughtering persecution.
    • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Fall of the House of Usher’:
      Feeble gleams of encrimsoned light made their way through the trellised panes, and served to render sufficiently distinct the more prominent objects around [] .
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