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Definition of Couched
1. a. Same as Couch&?;.
Definition of Couched
1. Verb. (past of couch) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Couched
1. couch [v] - See also: couch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Couched
Literary usage of Couched
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1895)
"Like all of Mr. Morris's prose poems, it is a fantastic tale, half a parable,
half a fairy story, couched in the beautiful and poetic-— if archaic — English ..."
2. History of the Hartford Convention: With a Review of the Policy of the by Theodore Dwight (1833)
"This note is couched in language equally extraordinary with that from which we
have copied the foregoing extracts. The following passages are quoted— ..."
3. The History of the Popes, from the Close of the Middle Ages: Drawn from the by Ludwig Pastor, Ralph Francis Kerr, Frederick Ignatius Antrobus (1908)
"... and especially in 1513, 1515, 1516, and 1518, satires were spread about,
couched in bitter language, and directed, not only against Cardinals, ..."
4. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1874)
"... on the other hand, whenever he thought men were disposed to accept some
resolution without duly weighing the force of the words in which it was couched, ..."
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