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Webster 1913 Edition
Cataphracted
Cat′a-phractˊed
,Adj.
(Zool.)
Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc.; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.
Definition 2025
cataphracted
cataphracted
English
Adjective
cataphracted (not comparable)
- Covered with a cataphract.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.121:
- The path climbed along a wall of purple sandstone above an embayment and in the sunlit shadows below him he could see the long cataphracted forms of gars lying in a kind of electric repose among the reeds.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.121: