bitumed

English

Etymology

From bitume +‎ -ed.

Adjective

bitumed (comparative more bitumed, superlative most bitumed)

1. (obsolete) Smeared or covered with bitumen.
   • c. 1607–1608 (date written), William Shakespeare, [George Wilkins?], The Late, and Much Admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: […] [William White and Thomas Creede] for Henry Gosson, […], published 1609, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

     Sir, we haue a Chiſt beneath the hatches, / Caulkt and bittumed ready.

   • 1878 August 1, “Lesson LXXXVI”, in The Sabbath School Magazine‎, volume XXX, number viii, page 191:

     The basket of bulrushes for the infant Moses, when thoroughly bitumed, was well adapted for the object for which it was made.

References

• “bitumed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.