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I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
Samuel Pepys

Meaning of "quartered" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF QUARTERED

quartered  [ˈkwɔːtəd] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF QUARTERED

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Quartered is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES QUARTERED MEAN IN ENGLISH?

quartered

Hanged, drawn and quartered

To be hanged, drawn and quartered was from 1351 a statutory penalty in England for men convicted of high treason, although the ritual was first recorded during the reigns of King Henry III and his successor, Edward I. Convicts were fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where they were hanged, emasculated, disembowelled, beheaded and quartered. Their remains were often displayed in prominent places across the country, such as London Bridge. For reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burned at the stake. The severity of the sentence was measured against the seriousness of the crime. As an attack on the monarch's authority, high treason was considered a deplorable act demanding the most extreme form of punishment; although some convicts had their sentences modified and suffered a less ignominious end, over a period of several hundred years many men found guilty of high treason were subjected to the law's ultimate sanction. They included many English Catholic priests executed during the Elizabethan era, and several of the regicides involved in the 1649 execution of Charles I.

Definition of quartered in the English dictionary

The definition of quartered in the dictionary is divided into four sections, each having contrasting arms or having two sets of arms, each repeated in diagonally opposite corners. Other definition of quartered is sawn into four equal parts along two diameters at right angles to each other; quartersawn.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH QUARTERED


accoutred
əˈkuːtəd
blootered
ˈbluːtəd
chartered
ˈtʃɑːtəd
headquartered
ˌhɛdˈkwɔːtəd
martyred
ˈmɑːtəd
portered
ˈpɔːtəd
unchartered
ʌnˈtʃɑːtəd
ungartered
ʌnˈɡɑːtəd
unmetered
ʌnˈmiːtəd
untutored
ʌnˈtjuːtəd
watered
ˈwɔːtəd

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE QUARTERED

quarter-hour
quarter-hourly
quarter-miler
quarter-phase
quarter-pound
quarter-pounder
quarterage
quarterback
quarterdeck
quarterdecker
quarterer
quarterfinal
quartering
quarterlies
quarterlife crisis
quarterlight
quarterly
quartermaster
quartermaster general
quartermaster sergeant

WORDS THAT END LIKE QUARTERED

battered
buttered
centered
clustered
cluttered
considered
embittered
flattered
lettered
littered
plastered
scattered
self-centered
shattered
sheltered
tattered
unaltered
unfettered
unfiltered
unregistered
upholstered

Synonyms and antonyms of quartered in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «QUARTERED»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «quartered» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of quartered

Translation of «quartered» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF QUARTERED

Find out the translation of quartered to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of quartered from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «quartered» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

驻扎
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

en cuartos
570 millions of speakers

English

quartered
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

quartered
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

إيواؤهم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

четвертовали
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esquartejado
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চার ভাগে
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

quartiers
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Berpuas hati
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

geviertelt
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

宿舎
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

등분
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Saben wulan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

làm tư
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நான்கு பகுதிகளாக
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चौथा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

dörde
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

squartato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

zakwaterowani
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

четвертували
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sferturi
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυδωνάτες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kwarte
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

inkvarterade
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

partert
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of quartered

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «QUARTERED»

The term «quartered» is regularly used and occupies the 56.360 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about quartered

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QUOTES WITH «QUARTERED»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word quartered.
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Samuel Pepys
I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «QUARTERED»

Discover the use of quartered in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to quartered and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Drawn & Quartered: The History of American Political Cartoons
The history of American political cartoons.
Stephen Hess, 1996
2
Quartered Safe Out Here: A Harrowing Tale of World War II
George MacDonald Fraser—beloved for his series of Flashman historical novels—offers an action-packed memoir of his experiences in Burma during World War II. Fraser was only 19 when he arrived there in the war's final year, and he offers ...
George MacDonald Fraser, 2013
3
Quartered in hell: the story of the American North Russia ...
Personalized story of the American North Russia Expeditionary Force of the Allied North Russia Campaign. Deals with the western campaign involving the Murmansk-Archangel area, concentrating on the American commitment.
Dennis Gordon, Hayes Otoupalik, 1982
4
New Orleans, Drawn and Quartered
Artist's drawings of various scenes in New Orleans.
Olive Leonhardt, 1938
5
Identity and the Quartered Circle: Studies in Applied Wicca
The deities are psychological symbols for love,courage, growth, emergence orrebirth represented in humanbodies. Yantras approach thesame concepts using symbols instead of spirit beings. A quartered circle represents the four directions.
Dorothy Louise Abrams, 2013
6
This Drawn and Quartered Moon
Over ten years in the making, this collection evokes the restless spirits of predecessors such as Nicanor Parra, Gregory Corso and Kenneth Patchen.
Klipschutz, 2013
7
Drawn and quartered
By Robert Creeley. Artwork by Archie Rand.
Robert Creeley, Archie Rand, 2001
8
The Quartered Sea
When an expedition into the uncharted waters to find the homeland of the legendary Dark Sailor ends in disaster, Benedikt, a young bard, finds himself stranded in a mysterious unknown world, the pawn in a deadly game of politics and ...
Tanya Huff, 1999
9
Drawn and Quartered
In this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth.
E. M. Cioran, 2012
10
The Urban Lifeworld: Formation, Perception, Representation
1 I THE QUARTERED CITY The quarters of the city today result, in several meanings of the term, in a truly quartered city. It is hardly possible to speak accurately of "the" city any longer, when speaking of any of the major cities of the world; ...
Peter Madsen, Richard Plunz, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «QUARTERED»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term quartered is used in the context of the following news items.
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Pospisil will try to avoid being drawn and quartered: DiManno
Pospisil will try to avoid being drawn and quartered: DiManno. To hear some tennis cognoscenti around here tell it, the 25-year-old from Vernon, B.C., might as ... «Toronto Star, Jul 15»
2
Samar Yazbek: 'Syria has been hung, drawn and quartered'
From exile in Paris, Samar Yazbek has written a powerful and moving account of her devastated homeland. Here, she tells how she risked her life to cross ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
3
Former CNN Journalist: Right Would Have 'Drawn and Quartered
They would have raked them over the coals – drawn and quartered the entire family in the middle of Times Square. And the fact that they've been a bit – I think a ... «NewsBusters, Jun 15»
4
Drawn & Quartered Returns for Seventh Incarnation on Friday
Now in its seventh incarnation, Drawn & Quartered takes place in a different venue ... The Drawn & Quartered event itself will begin at 7 p.m. The event will run ... «Cleveland Scene Weekly, May 15»
5
Britt McHenry Should be Drawn and Quartered
Britt McHenry is a sports reporter who works for ESPN and used to work on San Diego Padres broadcasts. She's attractive in that Fox News white lady/ blonde ... «ChicagoNow, Apr 15»
6
Hung, drawn and first-quartered
IF ONLY America could abolish the first quarter, its economy would look so much better. In 2014 a cold snap triggered by the “polar vortex” caused GDP to fall by ... «The Economist, Apr 15»
7
Coventry city centre could be 'quartered' - into nine
A blueprint for how Coventry city centre could look for the next 20 years has been published by the council. The Area Action Plan breaks the city into nine ... «BBC News, Feb 15»
8
Drawn and Quartered: How the Capitals Go on Special Teams
For teams at the extremes of special teams efficiency, getting on (or staying off) special teams is critical. With a top power play, Washington gets an extra goal for ... «Japers' Rink, Jan 15»
9
The parties prepare for a hung, drawn and quartered parliament
The next one could be a hung, drawn and quartered parliament. In which case, the minor parties at Westminster are going to become major players. We may find ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
10
9 things you never knew about Guy Fawkes
His body was subsequently quartered, and his remains were sent to "the four corners of the kingdom" as a warning to others. 2. Guy Fawkes was not the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 14»

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