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ethosed

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˈiːθɒst/

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adj

Meaning 1

Possessed of a particular ethos.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: nonstandard, not-comparable, rare

Examples

  • 2003: “Jesse James Jensen”, alt.politics (Google group): Liberal Bigots Will Call Her a “House Nigger”, the 3rd day of November at 9:59pm We have a lot of wars to keep track of at the moment, but I’m pretty sure I would have remembered one against an out-moded Victorian-ethosed semi-religious woodland-based activity group. But you probably want to keep the Boy Scouts homo-free. As a private organization, it is their right to keep out the queers, but I don’t know why they’d want to; it was pretty common knowledge in my school that those outfits they had to wear were pretty gay.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

History

Etymology

From ethos + -ed.