Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CATAPHRACT
n. 1. In the ancient military art, a piece of heavy defensive armor, formed of cloth or leather, strengthened with scales or links, used to defend the breast, or whole body, or even the horse as well as the rider.
2. A horseman in complete armor.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CATAPHRACT
Cat "a *phract, n. Etym: [L. cataphractes, Gr.
1. (Mil. Antiq.)
Defn: Defensive armor used for the whole body and often for the horse, also, esp. the linked mail or scale armor of some eastern nations.
2. A horseman covered with a cataphract. Archers and slingers, cataphracts, and spears. Milton.
3. (Zoöl.)
Defn: The armor or plate covering some fishes.
CATAPHRACTED
CATAPHRACTED Cat "a *phract `ed, a. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Covered with a cataphract, or armor of plates, scales, etc. ; or with that which corresponds to this, as horny or bony plates, hard, callous skin, etc.
CATAPHRACTIC
CATAPHRACTIC Cat `a *phrac "tic, a.
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a cataphract.
New American Oxford Dictionary
cataphract
cat a phract |ˈkatəˌfrakt ˈkætəfrækt | ▶noun archaic a soldier in full armor. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek kataphraktos ‘clothed in full armor. ’
Oxford Dictionary
cataphract
cataphract |ˈkatəfrakt | ▶noun archaic a soldier in full armour. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: via Latin from Greek kataphraktos ‘clothed in full armour ’.
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