diademmed

English

Verb

diademmed

simple past and past participle of diadem

Adjective

diademmed (not comparable)

Alternative spelling of diademed.
- 1845, Thomas Cooper, The Purgatory of Suicides. A Prison-Rhyme., London: […] Jeremiah How, […], book IV, stanza XXII, page 134:
  Childhood’s sweet fields renewed, / With daisies and with king-cups gay begemmed, / I saw: then Lindsey’s sweetest sanctitude / Of Druid woods arose, where, giant-stemmed, / Upreared old trees anew with verdure diademmed.
- 1853, Kálidása, “Uma’s Nativity”, in Ralph T[homas] H[otchkin] Griffith, transl., The Birth of the War-God. A Poem by Kálidása., London: W[illia]m H[oughton] Allen & Co., […], page 5:
  That fair young maiden diademmed with light / Made her dear mother’s fame more sparkling bright, / As the blue offspring of the Turquoise Hills / The parent Mount with richer glory fills, / When the Cloud’s voice has caused the gem to spring, / Responsive to its gentle thundering.
- 1917, Lord Dunsany [Edward Plunkett], “The Tents of the Arabs”, in Plays of Gods and Men, New York, N.Y., London: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, act II, page 49:
  I will raise up my head of a night-time against the sky, and the old, old unbought stars shall twinkle through my hair, and we shall not envy any of the diademmed queens of the world.
- 1922 February, Miriam Campbell, “A Dream of Brittany”, in The Educational Times: A Review of Ideas and Methods, volume IV (new series)/LXXIV (old series), page 64, column 1:
  And those salt tears your lashes gemmed / Were but the breath of flame distilled; / Flame white and pure, and diademmed / With suffering,—pain with joy fulfilled.
- 1922 March, Orlo Williams, “An Interior”, in Leonard Huxley, editor, The Cornhill Magazine, London: John Murray, […], page 347:
  Over all, from the centre of the sideboard, a bust of the old Queen, diademmed and Garter-ribboned, threw a glance of stony approbation.
- 1941, Anna de Koven, “Women of Antiquity”, in Women in Cycles of Culture, New York, N.Y.: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, page 2:
  Although rifled from her temple, the figure of a cow, then worshiped as the goddess of the Egyptians, still stands unmarred and diademmed in the museum at Cairo, showing the reverence of the queen for her divinity.
- 1956 November, P[atricia] K[athleen] Page, “After Rain”, in Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, volume LXXXIX, number 2, page 101:
  But he so beautiful and diademmed, his long Italian hands so wrung with rain I find his ache exists beyond my rim, then almost weep to see a broken man had satisfied my whim.