obtruncated
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]obtruncated
- simple past and past participle of obtruncate
- 1761, Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman:
- "——To die, is the great debt and tribute due unto nature: tombs and monuments, which should perpetuate our memories, pay it themselves; and the proudest pyramid of them all, which wealth and science have erected, has lost its apex, and stands obtruncated in the traveller's horizon."