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Volumed

adjective

(often used in combination) consisting of or having a given number or kind of volumes. "A two-volumed history" , "Multi-volumed encyclopedias" , "Large-volumed editions"

Formed or rising in rounded masses.

Furnished with volumes.

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"Volumed" Quotes from Famous Books

... to whom the way of either maiden is as yet no more than the title-page of a many-volumed book, succeed where the father native to ...

— Kai Lung's Golden Hours • Ernest Bramah

... where tea was now brought and put before her was volumed round by the collections of her grandfather, except for the spaces filled by his portrait and that of earlier ancestors, going back to the time when Copley made masterpieces of his fellow-Bostonians. Her aunt herself looked a family portrait of the middle period, a little ...

— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells

... follows them in like wise low under earth. Others, lo! he beholds feasting on the sward to right and left, and singing in chorus the glad Paean-cry, within a scented laurel-grove whence Eridanus river surges upward full-volumed through the wood. Here is the band of them who bore wounds in fighting for their country, and they who were pure in priesthood while life endured, and the good poets whose speech abased not Apollo; and they who made life beautiful by the arts of their invention, and ...

— The Aeneid of Virgil • Virgil

... hearts, already beating to a national idea; until domestic reality met them in the shape of uncles, and turned them back from their great resolve. That child-pilgrimage was a fit beginning. Theresa's passionate, ideal nature demanded an epic life: what were many-volumed romances of chivalry and the social conquests of a brilliant girl to her? Her flame quickly burned up that light fuel; and, fed from within, soared after some illimitable satisfaction, some object which would never justify weariness, ...

— Middlemarch • George Eliot

Words linked to "Volumed" : large, big, volume, equipped, combining form, furnished