quartered

[ kwawr-terd ]

adjective

1. divided into quarters.
2. furnished with quarters or lodging.
3. (of wood) quartersawed.
4. Heraldry.
   1. (of an escutcheon) divided into four or more parts.
   2. (of a cross) having the central square portion removed.

quartered

/ ˈkwɔːtəd /

adjective

1. heraldry (of a shield) divided into four sections, each having contrasting arms or having two sets of arms, each repeated in diagonally opposite corners
2. (of a log) sawn into four equal parts along two diameters at right angles to each other; quartersawn

Other Words From

• un·quartered adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of quartered¹

First recorded in 1475–85; quarter + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Looking back on White’s original 500-word essay, trying to pinpoint the source of the internet’s ire, you might think you missed a line in which she insisted that all musicians be drawn and quartered.

From Los Angeles Times

Carrying a teddy bear and sporting a genial smile, he nevertheless can have a man drawn and quartered and order dogs to be set upon a hapless victim being dragged to death behind a motorcycle.

From Seattle Times

As I wrote at the time, the Democrats threw Daszak and by extension science itself under the bus: “Perhaps they hoped that by allowing Daszak to be drawn and quartered, they might persuade the Republicans to climb down from their evidence-free claims about government complicity in the pandemic’s origins.”

From Los Angeles Times

Perhaps they hoped that by allowing Daszak to be drawn and quartered, they might persuade the Republicans to climb down from their evidence-free claims about government complicity in the pandemic’s origins.

From Los Angeles Times

For twenty-first century readers, to be drawn and quartered is a particularly gruesome manner of death.

From Salon

Related Words

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