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Definition of "cornuted" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of cornute. (verb)
  • Bearing horns; horned. (adjective)
  • Horn-shaped. (adjective)

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Use "cornuted" in a sentence
  • "How deemest thou of yonder cornuted, who is drunken in his heedlessness and weeteth not the wiles of women?"
  • "Uxorem sed habes Candide cum populo; but neighbour Candidus your wife is common: husband and cuckold in that age it seems were reciprocal terms; the emperors themselves did wear Actaeon's badge; how many Caesars might I reckon up together, and what a catalogue of cornuted kings and princes in every story?"
  • "Scilicet boni dimidium dividere cum Jove, it never troubles me (saith Amphitrio) to be cornuted by"