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sullied, ppl. a.|ˈsʌlɪd|
Also 6 solyed, 7 sully'd.
[f. sully v. + -ed1.]
Soiled, polluted (lit. and fig.); † made gloomy or dull.
1571[implied in sulliedness]. c1600Shakes. Sonn. xv, To change your day of youth to sullied night. 1612Drayton Poly-olb. x. 194 Her sullied face. 1683Tryon Way to Health 320 A loathsomely sullied Soul, and an indisposed distempered Body. 1695A. Telfair New Confut. Sadd. (1696) 7 Seven small Bones..wrapp'd up in a piece of old sullied Paper. 1734tr. Rollin's Anc. Hist. xv. viii. (1827) VI. 132 The moon..appeared afterwards quite sullied and as it were tinged with blood. 1824Scott Redgauntlet ch. xiii, He wore a smart hanger and a pair of pistols in a sullied sword-belt. 1870Dickens E. Drood i, The choir are getting on their sullied white robes. 1889R. Bridges Growth of Love lii, Let the true Muse rewrite her sullied page.
b. sullied white, dirty white.
1681Lond. Gaz. No. 1676/4 A very large Irish Greyhound being of a sullied White, with some pale yellowish spots. 1817Stephens in Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. ii. 493 The under parts of the body sullied white: the tail greenish black.
Hence † ˈsulliedness, defilement.
1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxviii. 15 Although the land were covered with solyednesse throughe the troublous invasion of the enemies: yit..it recovered hir whitenesse, so as it became as whyte as snowe. |