Definition of "refracted" [re•fract•ed]

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

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• "Its oblique rays refracted from the floating frost particles till the air was filled with glittering jewel-dust -- resplendent, blazing, flashing light and fire, but cold as outer space."
• "The sunset fires, refracted from the cloud-driftage of the autumn sky, bathed the canyon with crimson, in which ruddy-limbed mandronos and wine-wooded manzanitas burned and smoldered."
• "At another time it might have been a pretty journey, the hills just turning the colors of pumpkin and hay and pomegranate and the skies depthless and clear, but now everywhere one looked most of the trees had been felled for fuel and there was only a hazy, oppressive brightness refracted from the shorn hillsides."