intorted

[ in-tawr-tid ]

adjective

1. twisted inwardly about an axis or fixed point; curled; wound:

   intorted horns.

Word History and Origins

Origin of intorted¹

1605–15; < Latin intort ( us ) (variant past participle of intorquēre to turn or twist in; in- ², tort ) + -ed ²

Example Sentences

Nothing else was notable on deck, save where the loose topsail had played some havoc with the rigging, and there hung, and swayed, and sang in the declining wind, a raffle of intorted cordage.

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Intorted: turned or twisted inwardly.

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As Clark cannot interview himself to the extent of half a column for the Morning Bazoo without getting his goozle entangled in the skein of his own intorted argument, so the Advertiser cannot grind out an editorial of equal length without getting hoist with its own logical sequence, split from vermiform appendix to occipitofrontalis by the recoil of its own syllogisms.

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In the first place, then, her most copious and long hairs, being gradually intorted, and promiscuously scattered on her divine neck, were softly defluous.

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Nor was Minerva absent from the rite, She view'd her honours, and enjoyed the sight, With reverend hand the king presents the gold, Which round the intorted horns the gilder roll'd.

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