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▪ I. trained, a.|treɪnd| [f. train n.1 + -ed2.] 1. Having a train, as a robe; having a luminous train, as a meteor (quot. 1686).
1588in Aston's Manch. Guide (1804) 25 A traynd gowne lyned wyth chamlett. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies ii. x. 291 Tayl'd and trayn'd Meteors. 1883‘Sylvia’ Lady's Guide Dressmaking 107, 2 trained petticoats. 1905Daily Chron. 13 Nov. 8/1 The average middle-class English woman..should never be tempted to wear a trained skirt out of doors. †2. Attended by a train or retinue. Obs. rare—1.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 4 He sent him not roially trained and accompanied like an Embassador. ▪ II. trained, ppl. a. (treɪnd, poet. ˈtreɪnɪd) [f. train v.1 + -ed1.] In various senses corresponding to those of the verb. †1. Drawn, trailed along, etc.; fig. attracted, allured, enticed. Obs.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Oct. 24 Whereto thou list their trayned willes entice. 2. Disciplined; made proficient by discipline. a. spec. Subjected to military discipline and instruction, drilled; esp. in trained band = train-band (now Hist.); so † trained man, trained soldier, a soldier belonging to a trainband (obs.).
1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1596) 70 The trained companies only shall resort to the places of their appointed Rendeuous. 1594Sir H. Cocke in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. ii. III. 175 Havinge..taken a perfect vyewe of all the Trayned Bandes. 1611Bible Gen. xiv. 14 Abram..armed his trained seruants. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 105 To haue six thousand of the trained bands in readines. 1644Prynne & Walker Fiennes' Trial App. 25 Iames Powell of Bristoll, one of the Trained Souldiers of that City [called below Train Soldiers]. 1707E. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. ii. xvi. (ed. 22) 217 Of the standing Militia, or Trained-Bands. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) II. ix. 133 The citizens of London mustered their trained bands on holidays. b. gen. Disciplined, instructed, educated; made proficient by discipline and instruction.
1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Note-Bks. (1872) I. 21 The women..have a trained expression that supplies the place of beauty. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VII. 855 To engage a trained hospital nurse. 1910D. G. Hogarth in Encycl. Brit. I. 248/2 An Art, whose products cannot be confounded with those of any other..by a trained eye. 3. Of a plant: Artificially caused to grow in some desired way; of a woman's figure, made slender or shaped by wearing a corset.
1766Compl. Farmer s.v. Peach-tree, Such trees, which are of one year's growth from the budding,..will soon overtake in growth those which are called trained trees. 1786Abercrombie Gard. Assist. 311 Those ready trained, denominated trained trees. 1871Figure Training 90 Slender and elegantly trained figures. |