Definition of Acred:
part of speech: adjective
Possessing
acres
or
land.
Usage examples:
-
Greenaway
was
violent,
and
rather
disposed
to
give
an "
exemplary"
sentence;
Wiseman
was
contemptuously
indifferent,
as
became
a
big
acred
man
and
the
husband
of
a
woman
with
a
handle
to
her
name;
and
Parson
Codling
was
unctuously
severe.
Alexander Johnstone Wilson in "The Life of Thomas Wanless, Peasant".
-
The
heat
of
the
air
was
great,
the
light
was
almost
blinding,
while
the
shimmer
upon
the
baked
surface,
added
to
the
swaying
of
one's
feet
in
soft
places,
gave
rise
to
the
idea
that
the
mighty
beast
was
still
breathing,
and
that
its
many-
acred
flank
actually
moved.
Francis Rolt-Wheeler in "Plotting in Pirate Seas".
-
It
was
a
band
of
exiles:
a
raft,
as
it
were,
from
the
shipwrecked
Nation,
scattered
along
the
coast,
now
floating
together,
Bound
by
the
bonds
of
a
common
belief
and
a
common
misfortune;
Men
and
women
and
children,
who,
guided
by
hope
or
by
hearsay,
Sought
for
their
kith
and
their
kin
among
the
few-
acred
farmers
On
the
Acadian
coast,
and
the
prairies
of
fair
Opelousas.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in "The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow".
-
He
was
a
thin
stately
man
of
law,
garbed
as
one
who
gave
audience
to
acred
bishops,
and
carrying
on
his
countenance
the
stamp
of
paternity
to
the
parchment
skins,
and
of
a
virtuous
attachment
to
Port
wine
sufficient
to
increase
his
respectability
in
the
eyes
of
moral
Britain.
George Meredith in "The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith".