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English
Etymology
From cavern + -ed.
Adjective
caverned (comparative more caverned, superlative most caverned)
- (poetic) Pitted or hollowed out with caverns.
1815, Lord Byron, The Siege of Corinth, XXXIII, lines 1022-1023:The wolves yelled on the caverned hill
Where echo tolled in thunder still;
- Living in a cavern.
1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. , epistle 4, London: Printed for J Wilford, , →OCLC, page 63, lines 39–42:No Bandit fierce, no Tyrant mad with pride, / No cavern'd Hermit, reſt ſelf-ſatisfy'd; / Who moſt to ſhun or hate mankind pretend, / Seek an Admirer, or wou'd fix a Friend.
1828, Walter Colton, Remarks on Duelling, New York: Leavitt, page 40:[…] he will heed as little the lofty generous enterprises that kindle upon the moral world, as a caverned bear the luminous expanse of the glittering heaven.
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