Meaning of travested | Babel Free

Definitions

Disguised; degraded; debased.

formal, uncommon

Examples

“Our Traveſted Baroneſs had ſtill at that time above twelve Thouſand Livers, in Gems, and Jewels about her.”

“Mr. Smith says, that the President was educated to worship the Constitution. Nay; but to worship a travested, falsified and mutilated thing called the Constitution, as differerent from the real Constitution of the U.S., as impartial liberty is from the chattel slave gystem.”

“*The analysis of dreams, which is so travested by the Freudians, is an important and interesting part of psychology.”

“The truth is that the child is not ‘like a boy,’ and that if you put him into a coat and waistcoat forthwith, he only would look like a small angel travested.”

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