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ˈhaunted, ppl. a.
[f. haunt v. + -ed.]
1. Practised; used, habituated, or accustomed (to a course); wonted. Obs. exc. dial.
a1325Prose Psalter cxviii[i]. 15 Y shal be haunted [exercebor] in thy comaundement. c1425Found. St. Bartholomew's (E.E.T.S.) 17 Bewtyfied with hawntid and vsuall tokenys of celestiall vertu. 1513Douglas æneis v. vi. 31 Hantit to ryn in wodis [assueti silvis] and in schawis. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 120 Hee..keepeth them a weeke till they be wonted and hanted togeather. 1868Atkinson Cleveland Gloss. s.v., To be Haunted, to grow used to, or become accustomed.
2. a. Frequented by many people, much resorted to.
1576Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 77 Their populous and great haunted Cities. 1600J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa ii. 359 Africke hath ever beene the least knowen and haunted parte in the world. 1838Praed Home of Childhood ii, The play-haunted lawn.
b. Frequented by noxious creatures; infested.
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) IV. 504 Few instances..of plants and animals in perfect health being thus haunted. 1887J. M. Brown Shikar Sk. 14 A tiger-haunted jungle.
3. a. Frequented or much visited by spirits, imaginary beings, apparitions, spectres, etc.
[1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 347 The Isle of Devills, so called because they hold it to be haunted with spirits.] 1711Addison Spect. No. 110 ⁋1, I like this Retirement the better, because of an ill Report it lies under of being haunted. 1832W. Irving Alhambra I. 110 Here was the haunted wing of the castle. 1848Dickens (title) The Haunted Man. 1859― The Haunted House.
b. In wider use.
1906Daily Chron. 23 Feb. 3/4 The beauty-haunted eyes of such painters as Gainsborough, Romney, Botticelli. 1906Rider Haggard Benita vii, Staring at the white Benita and at her haunted eyes. 1908Westm. Gaz. 17 Aug. 3/1 He paces the garden in this haunting, haunted fashion. 1910A. C. Benson Silent Isle xv, You become aware that some exquisite haunted quality has slipped away from the later work.
c. Comb., as haunted-looking adj.
1883Ld. R. Gower My Remin. II. 26 A low, long, damp, haunted-looking gallery. 1918Mrs. Belloc Lowndes Out of the War? xx. 257 Haunted-looking eyes.
Hence ˈhauntedness.
1888Mrs. R. Jocelyn {pstlg}100,000 versus Ghosts II. ix. 134 That will put a stop to its hauntedness. |