“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
FORESHORTENED
Verb
foreshortened
simple past tense and past participle of foreshorten
Source: Wiktionary
FORESHORTEN
Fore*short"en, v. t.
1. (Fine Art)
Definition: To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
2. Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination. Songs, and deeds, and lives that lie Foreshortened in the tract of time. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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