ppl. a. [pa. pple. of ELONGATE v.]

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  1.  Made longer; drawn out or extended to an unusual or unnatural length.

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1751.  R. Cambridge, Scribbleriad, III. 83. O’er all her Limbs were seen Th’ elongated papillæ of the skin.

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1859.  Helps, Friends in C., Ser. II. I. vi. 217. An elongated maxim of Rochefoucault’s.

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1861.  Reade, Cloister & H., I. 251. He stood transfixed … sudden horror in his elongated countenance.

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1870.  F. Hall, in Wilson, trans. Vishṅu-puráṅa, V. 68. [Bhishmaka is] the elongated form of Bhishma.

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1884.  Mrs. Kendal, in Times, 24 Sept., 8/1. The lover of elongated farces.

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  2.  That is excessively long in proportion to its breadth, as if drawn out or extended.

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1831.  R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 51. Two of these edges … present anteriorly an elongated surface.

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1836.  Macgillivray, trans. Humboldt’s Trav., xxi. 305. One … has an elongated snout.

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1863.  M. J. Berkeley, Brit. Mosses, iii. 13. It [the stem] consists more or less of elongated cells.

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1877.  W. Thomson, Voy. Challenger, I. ii. 131. The heart, an elongated tube.

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