moted

English

Etymology

From mote ‎ -ed.

Adjective

moted (not comparable)

1. Filled with motes, or fine floating dust.
   • 1830 June, Alfred Tennyson, “Mariana”, in Poems. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon, […], published 1842, →OCLC, stanza VII, page 14:

     [B]ut most she loath'd the hour / When the thick-moted sunbeam lay / Athwart the chambers, and the day / Was sloping toward his western bower.

   • 1856, Edith MAY (pseud. [i.e. Anna Drinkwater]), Poems ... Illustrated, etc. Edited, with a preface, by N. P. Willis, page 109:

     The still air/To her astonished gaze grew all instinct,/Moted with airy forms for ever drawn/Up, by some genial influence.

   • 1969, Edmund Schiddel, Good Time Coming:

     The streets were warm with heavy-moted sunshine.

   • 2000, John Maxtone-Graham, Liners to the Sun, Sheridan House, Inc., →ISBN, page 39:

     Ensconced, God-like, in his enclosed cab high above the floor, the operator pilots that quiet flight through the dust-moted sun of the shed's interior

   • 2011, Golgotha Press, 10 Classic Epics, BookCaps Study Guides, →ISBN:

     Sea-dreaming in the moted air,/A siren lithe and debonair

   • 2013 March 1, Philip Temple, I Am Always With You, Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited, →ISBN:

     Inside, the sunbeams were moted with dust, scarcely moving, so that she imagined all the air in the room was filled with it, the soft detritus of blankets years unwashed, walls years unpainted, floors years unvarnished.

Anagrams

• domet

Volapük

Noun

moted (nominative plural moteds)

1. birth
   • 1952, Arie de Jong, Diatek nulik: Gospul ma ‚Matthaeus’. Kapit: I:

     Moted Yesusa: Kristus ejenon so: ven mot omik: ‚Maria’ ämatirajanof ko ‚Ioseph’, äplakoy, das büä ikobikons, pigrodükof fa Saludalanal.

     This is how Jesus Christ came to be born. His mother Mary was betrothed to Joseph; but before they came to live together she was found to be with child through the Holy Spirit.

     (literally, “The birth of Jesus Christ happened thusly: [...]”)

Declension

declension of moted

	singular	plural
nominative	moted	moteds
genitive	moteda	motedas
dative	motede	motedes
accusative	motedi	motedis
vocative 1	o moted!	o moteds!
predicative 2	motedu	motedus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only