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measled, ppl. a.|ˈmiːz(ə)ld|
Forms: 4 meselyd, 5 maselyd, meselled, 6 meseld, -led, mezeled, 6–7 measeled, 6–8 meazeled, 7 messeled, miselled, 7–8 meazled, 6– measled.
[f. measle n., a., and v. + -ed.]
1. Infected with measles.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lxiv. (1495) 281 Meete that is soone corrupte as of meselyd hogges. c1440Promp. Parv. 329/1 Maselyd, serpiginosus. 1499Maldon, Essex, Court Rolls (Bundle 58, no. 1v), Meselled hog. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 52 Thy measeled bacon. 1647New Haven Col. Rec. (1857) I. 342 [He] obiected against on of the hoggs wch was miselled. 1713C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 214 A Pestilential Sow, a meazeled Pork, On the foundation has been long at work. 1820J. Jekyll Corr. (1894) 144 We dined at A. Ellis's last week with the Poodle who has buried his measled Majesties. 1876tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. (ed. 6) 114 By the use of measled meat.
2. Spotted.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 213 One speckled fish..is called the poyson fish, tis shaped like a Tench, but meazled. 1706Phillips, Meazled, full of Meazles, Spots, or Blotches.
†3. fig. Poor, ‘scurvy’. (Cf. measly 4.)
1596Nashe Saffron-Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 191 That meazild inuention of the Goodwife my mothers finding her daughter in the ouen, where [etc.].
Hence † ˈmeasledness, measled condition.
1611Cotgr., Sursemure, the measeldnesse of Hogs. |