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† ˈviduated, pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs.
[f. L. viduāt-, ppl. stem of viduāre: see prec.]
Left widowed, desolate, or destitute.
1660Waterhouse Arms & Arm. 175 St. Pauls, thy viduated Mother Church. 1687Wood Life (O.H.S.) III. 218 In the beginning of this month came up at Oxon ‘a health to the Church dowager’, i.e. distressed or viduated Church of England. c1718Life R. Frampton (1876) 202 To intercede with them at helm, that the Church might not be viduated. 1727Bailey (vol. II). |