transversed

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Our bodies are transversed by millions of nerve fibres that transmit information.

From Science Daily • Nov. 28, 2023

Indeed, there is but one principal street, which is transversed by a multitude of lanes, which on one side lead down to the sea, and on the other scramble up a steep hill.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon

There were wooden shutters which were tightly closed, all except one, through an opening in which a sunbeam came and transversed the room in a shaft of glittering motes.

From The Debtor A Novel by Stevens, William Dodge

It may be mentioned that on some of the bindings of his quarto volumes the broken pitcher is transversed by the wimble or toret—an obvious pun on his name.

From Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography by Roberts, W. (William)

This poem was attacked by Mr. Charles Montague, afterwards Earl of Hallifax, and Mr. Matthew Prior, who joined in writing the Hind and Panther, transversed to the Country Mouse, and City Mouse, Lond.

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus