orificed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Thirdly the fiſtula it ſelfe is to be dealt withal: and firſt if it be ſtraite and narrow orificed, it muſt be enlarged, with a tent of gentian, or the trochiſes de minio, or ex radice brioniæ. or dracunculi[,] or a ſponge thus prepared: […]"
- "[Kenneth] Price developed an orificed pod-like form with several fingers either enclosed or thrusting out, but saturated with a dramatic range of the most intense and expressive color, either glazed or painted with coat after coat of automobile lacquers."
- "Borderlessness is a contrived crisis since, for regeneration to take place requires an orificed, profligate, grotesque body."
- "Seed splitter, I knived up through blackness to empty the day from my head – see how it scatters, a million zygote angels seeding the furrows to become these cabbages, lace-bonnet babies with skull-breaking brains, their urchin-orificed heads of flame burn like swamp gas."
Etymology
From orifice + -ed.