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▪ I. stirred, ppl. a.|stɜːd| [f. stir v. + -ed1.] Moved, agitated, excited, etc.: see the various senses of the verb. Also with up: see stir v. 16.
1483Cath. Angl. 365/1 Stird (v.r. Styrryde), motus, agitatus. 1538Elyot Dict., Percitus, styrred. 1545Ibid., Concitatus, stered, prouoked, meued. 1577Kendall Flowers of Epigr. 65 Is this (at last quoth he) Of all your sturred strife the cause? 1593Queen Elizabeth Boeth. ii. met. ii. 24 Sandz such store by raging flawes as stured sea turnes vp. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 307 He inclined him [his horse] first of al to lay away his stirred and angry minde. 1707Mortimer Husb. 448 [Cabbages] may be..transplanted..into a very rich and well stirred Mould. 1827H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 496 Let a trench then be..cut as deep nearly as the depth of the trenched ground, or stirred earth, of which the orchard-soil has been originally formed. 1860Ellicott Life Our Lord iv. 187 A storm of wind bursts upon the lake, and the stirred-up waters beat in upon the boat. 1862Meredith Mod. Love xlii. 74 Thoughts black as death, Like a stirr'd pool in sunshine break. ▪ II. stirred obs. form of starred ppl. a. |