hangedadj.
/haŋd/ 1. Suspended, etc.; see the verb. (Now Obsolete in the general sense; the form in use being hung adj.)
2.
a. Put to death by hanging by the neck.
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > hanging > [adjective] > hanged
yhongeOE
hanged1470
patibulated1656
gibbeted1756
neckclothed1825
sus. per coll.1827
1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur vii. xvi The syghte of these hanged knyghtes.
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 Reistit and crynit as hangit man on hill.
1599 J. Minsheu Pleasant Dialogues Spanish & Eng. 68 in R. Percyvall & J. Minsheu Spanish Gram. A rope of a hanged man.
1876 ‘P. Pyper’ Mr. Gray & Neighbours I. 205 England was ‘merrie’..for the hangers, though scarcely quite so ‘merrie’ and pleasant, perhaps, for the hanged.
b. As an expletive (also adv.): ‘Confounded’, ‘cursed’.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > oaths other than religious or obscene > imprecations
woeOE
dahetc1290
confoundc1330
foul (also shame) fall ——c1330
sorrow on——c1330
in the wanianda1352
wildfirea1375
evil theedomc1386
a pestilence on (also upon)c1390
woe betide you (also him, her, etc.)c1390
maldathaita1400
murrainc1400
out ona1415
in the wild waning worldc1485
vengeance?a1500
in a wanion1549
with a wanion1549
woe worth1553
a plague on——a1566
with a wanion to?c1570
with a wanyand1570
bot1584
maugre1590
poxa1592
death1593
rot1594
rot on1595
cancro1597
pax1604
pize on (also upon)1605
vild1605
peascod1606
cargo1607
confusion1608
perditiona1616
(a) pest upon1632
deuce1651
stap my vitals1697
strike me blind, dumb, lucky (if, but—)1697
stop my vitals1699
split me (or my windpipe)1700
rabbit1701
consume1756
capot me!1760
nick me!1760
weary set1788
rats1816
bad cess to1859
curse1885
hanged1887
buggeration1964
1887 Poor Nellie (1888) 102 A hanged uncomfortable position for a fellow to be in.
1887 Poor Nellie (1888) 105 A confounded bad dinner and hanged bad wine.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > ornamental textiles > [adjective] > tapestry > hung or adorned with
hanged1451
well hanged1479
well-hung1637
tapestried1769
tapestry-worked1883
1451 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) III. 351 An hanged bed.
1560 J. Heywood Fourth Hundred Epygrams ix. sig. Avv Som seeld, som hangd, som dide, som painted.
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §144 Musick is better in Chambers Wainscotted than Hanged.
1876 J. S. Brewer Eng. Stud. (1881) iii. 117 The king's chamber and the rooms adjoining were matted and hanged.
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