ivied

adjective

ˈī-vēd

: overgrown with ivy

: academic

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Scott went to an eastern college with ivied walls, thus the dark history and weird rituals of Helshire College were his creation. — Scott Westerfeld, PEOPLE, 19 July 2026 How did the ivied walls get so poisoned by anti-intellectual fealty to progressivism? — WSJ, 25 June 2018

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circa 1771, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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