Cornuted

ppl. a. [f. prec. adj. or vb. + -ED¹.]

  1.  Having horns, or horn-like projections; horned.

1613.  R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Cornuted, hauing hornes.

1613.  Zouch, Dove, 40. The silver Crescent, in the sable skye Seemes to resemble Loyres cornuted streames.

1760.  C. Johnston, Chrysal (1822), I. 101. Philosophical remarks on cornuted animals.

1816.  G. S. Faber, Orig. Pagan Idol., III. 351. The bovine and cornuted figure of Bacchus.

1831.  Carlyle, Sart. Res., I. vii. Bushel-breeches, cornuted shoes.

1870.  Rolleston, Anim. Life, Introd. III. The males, except in the cornuted species, being slighter in make.

  b.  Having the form of a horn, horn-shaped.

1866.  E. C. Rye, in Intell. Observ., No. 56. 132. Cornuted processes on head or thorax.

  2.  ‘Horned,’ cuckolded.

1612.  N. Breton, Pasquil’s Nt.-Cap (1877), 117. Loe here (cornuted Seigniors) here you see it is no wonder for to weare a horne.

1717.  Bullock, Wom. a Riddle, I. i. (1729), 20. A Pox on him for a cornuted Coxcomb, that cou’d not smell his Hornet from his House-Dog.

1830.  Fraser’s Mag., II. 92. Cornuted husbands.

  † 3.  Of an argument: ‘Horned.’ Obs. Cf. CORNUTE sb. 5.

1683.  O. U., Parish Ch. no Convent., 10. Else he would not arietare against our Bishops … with his cornuted arguments.

  † 4.  Of grain: ‘Spurred’ with ergot. Obs.

1676.  Phil. Trans., II. 761. The Cornuted Rey was the cause of the gangrens. Ibid., 760. This cornuted grain.