Definition of "ermined" [er•mined]

• Simple past tense and past participle of ermine. (verb)

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• "He argued that however well the act of murder of the workers might seek to disguise itself, hiding behind masks and ermined gowns and the darkness of night, carrying a Bible in its hands, weeping crocodile tears, it could not but have as its partners, fraud, hypocrisy, anarchy and destruction."
• "This is a masquerade of canards paraded by people who disguise their purposes by wearing ermined gowns, by weeping crocodile tears, by pretending to be as holy as the Bible, and by giving themselves a cloak of majesty even to the point of clothing this in pretensions of divinity."
• "Oh, ermined Judge whose duty to society is, now, to doom the ragged criminal to punishment and death, hadst thou never, Man, a duty to discharge in barring up the hundred open gates that wooed him to the felon's dock, and throwing but ajar the portals to a decent life!"