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sworded, a.|ˈsɔːdɪd, ˈsɔədɪd|
[f. sword n. + -ed2.]
Equipped or armed with a sword.
c1000ælfric Gram. xliii. (Z.) 257 Gladius swurd, gladiatus ᵹeswurdod. c1000Vercelli MS. lf. 78 b (in Napier Contrib. OE. Lexicogr.) Þa cwomon þær semninga tweᵹen englas to him ᵹescildode & ᵹesweordode [Blickl. Hom. 221 ᵹesceldode & ᵹesperode]. c1400Mandeville (1839) xii. 137 Thei knowen not how to ben clothed; now long, now schort,..now swerded, now daggered. 1470–85Malory Arthur viii. xxxix. 333 Whan sir Tristram was armed as hym lyked best and wel shelded and swerded. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. xi, The helmed Cherubim And sworded Seraphim. 1634W. Wood New Eng. Prosp. ii. vii, Being double pistold, and well sworded. 1711E. Ward Vulgus Brit. viii. 87 Such a brave surprizing Train Of sworded Boys, and armed Men. 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. V. 367 Nor James, nor sworded Paul, Watch in the cross-shap'd hall; Nor the first martyr of a madding crowd. 1805Coleridge Separation 1 A sworded man whose trade is blood. 1854Whittier The Rendition ii, I thought of Liberty Marched hand-cuffed down that sworded street. 1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur 507 A Caesar helmed and sworded.
b. transf. Having some part resembling a sword.
1681Grew Musæum i. v. i. 87 Whether this Fish be Viviperous, is uncertain; yet being of the Sworded-kind, I have ventur'd here to describe the Head. 1852Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 495 A marvel mightier than the sworded star. 1897F. Thompson Ode Setting Sun New Poems 116 Where is the Naiad 'mid her sworded sedge? |