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laurelled, ppl. a.|ˈlɒrəld, ˈlɔːrəld|
[f. laurel n.1 or v. + -ed.]
a. Adorned, crowned, or wreathed with laurel. Hence fig. honoured, illustrious: cf. laureate. † laurelled letters: cf. laureate A. 1 c.
b. Covered with a growth of laurel; also, made of laurel.
1682Dryden Dk. Guise iii. i, The Trophies of my Lawrell'd Honesty Shou'd bar me from forsaking this bad World. 1693― Persius Sat. (1697) 496 Th' Express is come With Laurell'd Letters from the Camp to Rome. 1700Prior Carmen Seculare 379 From his oozy Bed, Boyn shall raise his Laurell'd Head. 1744Akenside Pleas. Imag. i. 413 The choir Of laurel'd science. 1791E. Darwin Bot. Gard. i. 56 Liberty returns with laurell'd peace. 1815W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. LXXVII. 471 Laurelled rather than excellent in funeral eulogy. 1822Wordsw. Sonn., New Churches, Laurelled armies, not to be withstood—What serve they? 1867M. Arnold Heine's Grave 57 Here no sepulchre built In the laurell'd rock. 1879Froude Cæsar xxvi. 442 With laurelled fasces and laurelled wreaths. 1886Symonds Renaiss. It., Catholic React. (1898) VII. viii. 32 How touching was the destiny of this laurelled exile [Tasso]. |