ppl. a. Obs. [f. SPLIT v.] = SPLIT ppl. a.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. ii. 411. Euen as a splitted Barke, so sunder we.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 23/1. Of the haremouthe, or splitted and cloven lippes.
1602. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., IV. iv. H 4. I am a poore poore Orphant; a weake, weak childe, The wrack of splitted fortune.
1635. J. Johnson, Hist. Tom a Lincolne (1828), 87. Like to a splitted ship torne by the tempest of the sea.
1695. Bp. Sage, Presbytery (1697), 407. Why may not the two parts of the splitted Estate join together?
So Splitten ppl. a. rare.
1832. Motherwell, Poems, 17. Alack! What gain they but a splitten skull.
1896. Kipling, Seven Seas, 68. Like a splitten sail, to left and right she tore.
