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Grammar : Verb
Spell : pan-uh-plee
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæn ə pli



Definition of panoplied

Origin :
  • 1570s, from Greek panoplia "complete suit of armor," from pan- "all" (see pan-) + hopla (plural), "arms" of a hoplites ("heavily armed soldier"); see hoplite. Originally in English figurative, of "spiritual armor," etc. (a reference to Eph. vi); non-armorial sense of "any splendid array" first recorded 1829.
  • As in defend : verb protect
Example sentences :
  • Afloat in splendour, panoplied in light--the arch-pontifical Sun!
  • Extract from : « The Masque of the Elements » by Herman Scheffauer
  • Presently from the panoplied steps came the tinkle of moving feet.
  • Extract from : « A Transient Guest » by Edgar Saltus
  • He was truly a superhuman creature, terrifying, panoplied in lightnings of wrath.
  • Extract from : « Jimmie Higgins » by Upton Sinclair
  • All they now needed, it seemed to them, was to disentangle their panoplied war horses from that crowd of panic-stricken Genoese.
  • Extract from : « With the Black Prince » by William Osborn Stoddard
  • William gazed around upon the panoplied warriors before him with a bright and beaming eye.
  • Extract from : « William the Conqueror » by Jacob Abbott
  • A girl in a bathing suit, the skirt of which had been carried to sea by a ruthless yacht, is not panoplied for a campaign.
  • Extract from : « Good References » by E. J. Rath
  • They swarmed out of the bush, not in paltry dozens nor scores, but in their panoplied hundreds.
  • Extract from : « The Portal of Dreams » by Charles Neville Buck
  • I felt like some modern Robin Hood facing the panoplied authority of the King's man.
  • Extract from : « Adventures In Friendship » by David Grayson
  • The funeral cortege—a solemn line of panoplied boats, started from the palace.
  • Extract from : « Tarrano the Conqueror » by Raymond King Cummings
  • She was panoplied with the magic and mystery of death, and waited calmly for him to continue.
  • Extract from : « Victor Ollnee's Discipline » by Hamlin Garland

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