ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] In senses of the verb.
1796. Withering, Brit. Plants, IV. 113. These also are subdivided into long slender thread-shaped but flattened leaves, each of which, as well as the second branches, are armed with short sharp-pointed prickles.
1833. L. Ritchie, Wand. by Loire, 39. The bridge is composed of fifteen flattened arches, each seventy-five feet wide, and is perfectly straight.
1863. Lyell, Antiq. Man, ii. 27. Its [small delta’s] shape is that of a flattened cone.
1884. Bower & Scott, De Bary’s Phaner., 290. Rings, of which the outer at least consist of broad flattened pieces, separated by some few bands of parenchyma.
fig. 1874. Geo. Eliot, Coll. Breakf.-P., 621.
| Is wisdom flattened sense and mere distaste? | |
| Why, any superstition warm with love, | |
| Inspired with purpose, wild with energy | |
| That streams resistless through its ready frame, | |
| Has more of human truth within its life | |
| Than souls that look through color into naught. |
