daggeredadj.
/ˈdaɡəd/ 1. Armed with a dagger.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] > with knife
daggeredc1400
sword-and-dagger1821
knived1893
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xii. 137 Now swerded, now daggered, and in alle manere gyses.
1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in Poems Var. Subj. 154 The dagger'd Envy.
a1849 T. L. Beddoes Poems (1851) I. 172 A daggered hand beside the bed.
2. Stabbed or wounded with a dagger.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > [adjective] > wounded > wounded by sharp weapon
stricken1513
daggered1604
stabbed1613
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore ii. i. 436 How many Gallants haue drunk healthes to me, Out of their daggerd armes.
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3. Printing. Marked with a dagger.
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