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patterned

patterned

English

Adjective

patterned (not comparable)

  1. Conform to a pattern, a model to be followed.
    The Royal Navy kept patterned birches and patterned canes at the principal dockyards as specimens, intending to standardize the main implements used for formal corporal punishment on its ships

Verb

patterned

  1. simple past tense and past participle of pattern

Derived terms

References

  • Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Springfield, Massachusetts, G.&C. Merriam Co., 1967
  • Corpun.com, a specialized website on Corporal Punishments