adjective
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consisting of or being in volumes
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( in combination )
a three-volumed history
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rare having bulk or volume
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poetic forming a rounded mass
Etymology
Origin of volumed
Example Sentences
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The record player on the first floor volumed up Lonnie Johnson singing, “Tomorrow night, will you remember what you said tonight?”
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
An awful pause succeeds the stroke, And o'er the ruins volumed smoke, Rolling around its pitchy shroud, Concealed them from th' astonished crowd.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
Man socially is at least a three volumed work: however much longer the James-like pen of destiny may extend him.
From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, November 1, 1851 by Various
Pearly are they till the pale inherited stain Deepens in us, and the mirrors they form on their flow Darken to feature and nature: a volumed chain, Sequent of issue, in various eddies they show.
From Poems — Volume 3 by George Meredith
During the day livid volumed smoke forms cumuli that conceal their enemy, the sun, and discharge a rain of blacks ten times the size of Londoners.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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