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languaged, ppl. a.|ˈlæŋgwɪdʒd|
[f. language n. + -ed2.]
1. Skilled in a language or languages. Also well languaged.
1303R. Brunne Handl. Synne 8095 Þoghe he were wyser þan Salamon And bettyr langagede þan was Mercyon. 1513Earl of Worcester, etc. Let. to Hen. VIII in Strype Eccl. Mem. (1721) I. 6 If any Doctors of Civil Law and Languaged might be found in England. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. (Arb.) 278, I maruell your Noblemen of England doe not desire to be better languaged in forraine languages. 1593T. Mathews Let. to Burghley 2 Aug. in Tytler Hist. Scot. (1864) IV. 200 Well languaged in the French and Italian. 1605B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii, Great generall schollers,..The onely languag'd-men, of all the world! 1627–77Feltham Resolves i. lxxxvii. 135 Well uersed in the World, languaged and well read in men. 1628Earle Microcosm., Meere Dull Phisitian (Arb.) 25 He is indeed only languag'd in diseases, and speakes Greeke many times when he knows not. 1671F. Phillips Reg. Necess. 222 The six Gentlemen of the Privy Chamber should be well languaged.
b. Provided with or having a language. Chiefly with qualifying word prefixed: Characterized by the use of or expressed in (such or such) a language, or (many, etc.) languages.
1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. i. (1628) 5 This towre by these new languaged Masons thus left vnfinished. 1628Bp. Hall Old Relig. xii. §2. 121 How doth hee tell vs that in a strange languaged prayer the vnderstanding is vnfruitfull. 1725Pope Odyss. iii. 408 He..many languag'd nations has survey'd. 1798Canning New Morality 46 in Anti-Jacobin 9 July, The stream of verse and many-languaged prose. 1865D. W. Thompson Wayside Th. of Asophophilos. i. 5 The many-languaged harbour. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. 151 That tree which Father Huc saw in Tartary, whose leaves were languaged. 1871G. Macdonald Sonnets concerning Jesus v, How had we read, as in new-languaged books, Clear love of God.
2. With qualifying word prefixed: Having (good, etc.) speech, (well or fair) -spoken. ? Obs.
1470–85Malory Arthur vii. xxxvi, This syr Gareth was a noble knyghte and a wel rulyd and fayr langaged. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxxxi. 316 These two sage and well languaged knightes. 1561T. Hoby tr. Castiglione's Courtyer Y y iv, To be well spoken and faire languaged. 1613–16W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. 303 Well-languag'd Daniel. 1633Heywood Eng. Trav. iii. Wks. 1874 IV. 43 Pray be more open languag'd. 1652Kirkman Clerio & Lozia 44 Her gently languag'd mouth opened it self to disclose the dream to Vincia.
3. Expressed in language, worded. Also with qualifying word, as well.
1646S. Bolton Arraignm. Err. 236 Because an opinion comes languaged under the most receptible termes. 1691Wood Ath. Oxon. II. 169 His..well-languag'd Sermons speak him eminent in his generation. |