cataphracted
English
Etymology
From cataphract + -ed.
Adjective
cataphracted (not comparable)
- Covered with, or wearing, a cataphract.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, page 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.
References
- “cataphracted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.