Bucklered

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    simple past and past participle of buckler form-of, participle, past

Example

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"The hermit maintained and bucklered his opinion, by quotations from Malleus Malificarum, Sprengerus, Remigius, and other learned demonologists, that the Evil One, thus seduced to remain behind the appointed hour, would assume her true shape, and, having appeared to her terrified lover as a fiend of hell, would vanish from him in a flash of sulphurous lightning."

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