amuleted

English

Alternative forms

• amuletted

Etymology

From amulet +‎ -ed.

Adjective

amuleted (not comparable)

1. Adorned with an amulet.
   • 1868, “The Flowers and Fruits of Palestine”, in The Illustrated Magazine, volume XXV, London: Rogerson and Tuxford, […], page 38, column 1:

     Each woman appeared to have taken a bit of the stream for herself, tucked up her dress, stepped into the water, and emptied her sack and her baskets into it; the ruddy hue of her flowers, being reflected, cast a glow on the olive-coloured faces, and the pretty amuleted arms were plunged again and again among the roses till they were all well washed, or rather wetted.

   • 1930, Jack Herbert Driberg, People of the Small Arrow, Payson and Clarke, page 48:

     Their shields all amuleted, the four points decorated for war with feather tufts, leaned against their spears, which were planted in the ground, or reclined against trees and shrubs.

   • 1979, Nuruddin Farah, Sweet and Sour Milk, London: Heinemann Educational Books Ltd, published 1980, →ISBN, page 147:

     The charmed, amuleted child now went and stood by her; from a close distance, he contemplated the painted mammae.