orificed

English

Etymology

From orifice +‎ -ed.

Adjective

orificed (not comparable)

  1. (often in combination) Having an orifice.
    • 1585, [Johannes Jacob] Wecker, translated by Ihon Banester, “Of a Fistula”, in A Compendious Chyrurgerie: Gathered, & Translated (Especially) out of Wecker, at the Request of Certaine, but Encreased and Enlightened [], London: [] Iohn Windet, for Iohn Harrison the elder, →OCLC, page 500:
      Thirdly the fiſtula it ſelfe is to be dealt withal: and firſt if it be ſtraite and narrow orificed, it muſt be enlarged, with a tent of gentian, or the trochiſes de minio, or ex radice brioniæ. or dracunculi[,] or a ſponge thus prepared: []
    • 1963 December, John Coplans, “Out of clay: West Coast ceramic sculpture emerges as a strong regional trend”, in Art in America, volume 51, number 6, New York, N.Y.: Art in America Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 40, column 2:
      [Kenneth] Price developed an orificed pod-like form with several fingers either enclosed or thrusting out, but saturated with a dramatic range of the most intense and expressive color, either glazed or painted with coat after coat of automobile lacquers.
    • 1999, Carolyn Marvin, David W. Ingle, “Fresh blood, public meat”, in Blood Sacrifice and the Nation: Totem Rituals and the American Flag (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 256:
      Borderlessness is a contrived crisis since, for regeneration to take place requires an orificed, profligate, grotesque body.
    • 2002, DeSales Harrison, “Scarecrow in Cabbage Patch”, in James Naiden, editor, The North Stone Review, number 14, Minneapolis, Minn., →ISBN, →ISSN, page 65:
      Seed splitter, I knived up through blackness to empty the day from my head – see how it scatters, a million zygote angels seeding the furrows to become these cabbages, lace-bonnet babies with skull-breaking brains, their urchin-orificed heads of flame burn like swamp gas.

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