ppl. a. [f. ARCH v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Furnished with, formed into, or consisting of, an arch or arches.

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1598.  Shaks., Merry W., III. iii. 59. The right arched-beauty of the brow.

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1665.  Manley, Grotius’s Low-C. Wars, 361. It hath an Arched Bridg.

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1686.  Plot, Staffordsh., 358. A sort of arched-Bricks … bent round to fit the Eyes of their Cole-pits.

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1718.  Pope, Iliad, VI. 305. Raised on arch’d columns of stupendous frame.

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1827.  Keble, Chr. Year, Trin. Sun. As travellers … Lose in arched glades their tangled sight.

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  † 2.  Joined in mutual support; cf. ARCH v. 4. Obs.

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1581.  Lyly, Euphues (1636), D ij. Arched bands of amity.

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