cloven
adj1
Split, sundered, or divided.
- All wound with adders, who with their cloven tongues Do hiss me into madness—[...]1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Derived terms
- cloven foot, cloven-footed, show the cloven foot, cloven hoof, cloven-hoofed, cloven-hooved, clovenness, uncloven