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

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

Even casting the monarch’s horoscope was treasonous, and treason’s death sentence was hideous: women were burned alive, men were hanged, drawn, and quartered — hanged until almost dead, eviscerated while still alive, then chopped into pieces.

From Los Angeles Times

Related Words

• arranged
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