pa. pple. and ppl. a. [f. FRAGMENT + -ED2. Cf. F. fragmenté.] Broken into fragments, made fragmentary.
1798. Jane Austen, Northang. Abb. (1833), II. ix. 159. She felt confident of somewhere drawing forth, in the shape of some fragmented journal, continued to the last gasp.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., II. Sept., 128. What follows is a Song from the same fragmented masque.
1852. Willis, Summer Cruise in Medit., xxiii. 143. I climbed around over the heaps of fragmented columns, and maimed and fallen statues, to the northwestern corner of the citadels and sat down in the shade of one of the embrasures to look over toward Plato’s academy.
1864. Reader, IV. 2 July, 20/2. Multitudinous examples of bones fragmented by man of animals extinct in that part of Europe out of all record of history or tradition.
1893. De Tabley, Orpheus in Hades, in 19th Cent., XXXIV. Nov., 839.
| A chasm, in whose mouth the tumbled crags, | |
| Tumbled and jumbled, as in Titan wars, | |
| Lie fragmented in horror, block on block, | |
| Torn and enormous boulders. |
