SCENED
Etymology
Adjective
scened (not comparable)
(in combinations) Having a particular kind or number of scenes.
Verb
scened
simple past tense and past participle of scene
Anagrams
• censed
Source: Wiktionary
SCENE
Scene, n. Etym: [L. scaena, scena, Gr.
1. The structure on which a spectacle or play is exhibited; the part
of a theater in which the acting is done, with its adjuncts and
decorations; the stage.
2. The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in
which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other
devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a
play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the
scenes.
3. So much of a play as passes without change of locality or time, or
important change of character; hence, a subdivision of an act; a
separate portion of a play, subordinate to the act, but differently
determined in different plays; as, an act of four scenes.
My dismal scene I needs must act alone. Shak.
4. The place, time, circumstance, etc., in which anything occurs, or
in which the action of a story, play, or the like, is laid;
surroundings amid which anything is set before the imagination; place
of occurence, exhibition, or action. "In Troy, there lies the scene."
Shak.
The world is a vast scene of strife. J. M. Mason.
5. An assemblage of objects presented to the view at once; a series
of actions and events exhibited in their connection; a spectacle; a
show; an exhibition; a view.
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! Addison.
6. A landscape, or part of a landscape; scenery.
A sylvan scene with various greens was drawn, Shades on the sides,
and in the midst a lawn. Dryden.
7. An exhibition of passionate or strong feeling before others;
often, an artifical or affected action, or course of action, done for
effect; a theatrical display.
Probably no lover of scenes would have had very long to wait De
Quincey.
Behind the scenes, behind the scenery of a theater; out of the view
of the audience, but in sight of the actors, machinery, etc.; hence,
conversant with the hidden motives and agencies of what appears to
public view.
Scene, v. t.
Definition: To exhibit as a scene; to make a scene of; to display. [Obs.]
Abp. Sancroft.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition