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slaughtered, ppl. a.|ˈslɔːtəd|
[f. slaughter v.]
1. Of animals (or flesh): Killed for food, etc.
1588Shakes. Tit. A. ii. iii. 223 Lord Bassianus lies embrewed heere, All on a heape like to the slaughtred Lambe. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 48/1 Water wherinne slaughtered fleshe hath binn washed. a1639Carew A Cruel Mistress 5 A slaughter'd bull will appease angry Jove. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles iii. xvii, Underneath yon jutting crag Are hunters and a slaughter'd stag. 1837P. Keith Bot. Lex. 390 The muscle of slaughtered animals..forms also an agreeable..food for man.
transf.1746Francis tr. Horace, Epist. i. xii. 29 Whether slaughter'd Onions crown your Board, Or murder'd Fish an impious Feast afford.
2. Of persons: Killed, slain; massacred.
1593Shakes. Lucr. 1376 A weeping tear, Shed for the slaughter'd husband by the wife. 1669Hopkins Serm. 1 Pet. ii. 13 (1685) 4 Our most unfeigned mourning for a slaughtered Monarch. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 117 Heaps of slaughter'd Soldiers bite the Ground. 1743Francis tr. Horace, Odes iii. iii. 68 Thrice shall her Matrons..Deplore their slaughter'd Sons. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. viii. II. 316 Another had marched.., over heaps of slaughtered Moslem, to the sepulchre of Christ.
absol.1826Scott Woodst. xiv, I have heard..that the spirits of the slaughtered have strange power over the slayer.
3. slang. (See quot.)
1892Star 19 Dec. 2/5 Furniture made by ‘slaughtered’ (i.e., extra sweated) cabinet makers.
▸ Brit. slang. Very drunk.
1986New Mus. Express 11 Oct. 25 [In list of terms for drunkenness] Slaughtered. 1997Neon May 28/2, I was..fucking slaughtered. The film set was spinning. 2005Arena May 96/1 The types you see in bog-standard Booze Britain have been getting slaughtered in city centres for as long as I can remember. |