languagedadj.
/ˈlaŋɡwɪdʒd/, U.S. /ˈlæŋɡwɪdʒd/ 1.
a. Skilled in a language or languages; (also occasionally) versed in the language of a particular discipline. Cf. well-languaged adj. 1.
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the mind > language > a language > using or speaking languages > [adjective] > skilled in a language or languages
languageda1400
well-languagedc1450
linguist1607
linguished1630
mezzofantic1904
a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne (Harl.) 8094 (MED) Þogh he were wyser þan Salamon And bettyr langaged þat [read þan] was Mercyon.
a1500 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 282 (MED) But be that wey full of..suspeccione may no man..well passe but yef he were..well langaged and in good felishipe of suche as werene wel acquaynted with marchandes.
1513 Earl of Worcester et al. Let. 19 Aug. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. i. 6 (modernized text) If any Doctors of Civil Law and Languaged might be found in England.
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. 227 I maruell your Noblemen of England doe not desire to be better languaged in the forraine languages.
1607 B. Jonson Volpone ii. ii. sig. D4 Great, generall Schollers,..The onely Languag'd-men, of all the world. View more context for this quotation
1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxxxvii. sig. Z6v Well versed in the world, languaged and well read in men.
1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. iv. sig. B8v He is indeed only languag'd in diseases, & speakes Greeke many times when he knows not.
2006 Federal News Service (Nexis) 26 Apr. That's the kind of skill set we need in today's armed forces—a more mature, a more languaged, culturally-aware soldier, a more technically-competent soldier.
b. Having or speaking a language; (also) expressed in language of a particular kind. Chiefly with modifying word, as new-languaged, poorly languaged, etc.
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the mind > language > a language > using or speaking languages > [adjective]
languaged1605
the mind > language > a language > using or speaking languages > [adjective] > (of a book, etc.) of a particular kind
languaged1605
1605 R. Verstegan Restit. Decayed Intelligence i. 5 This towre, by these new languaged masons thus left vnfinished.
1628 Bp. J. Hall Olde Relig. xii. ii. 121 How doth hee tell vs that in a strange languaged prayer the vnderstanding is vnfruitfull.
1687 A. Shields Hind let Loose iii. 339 The joint will, consent & aggreement of the severally Languaged?
1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 408 He..many languag'd nations has survey'd.
1798 Anti-Jacobin 9 July 283/1 The stream of verse, and many-languaged prose.
1865 D. W. Thompson Wayside Th. of Asophophilos. i. 5 The many-languaged harbour.
1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 1st Ser. 151 That tree which Father Huc saw in Tartary, whose leaves were languaged.
1871 G. MacDonald Sonnets conc. Jesus v How had we read, as in new-languaged books, Clear love of God.
1933 E. A. Robinson Talifer ii. 26 Now my wicked uncle Was a dry-languaged man, who boiled his words Down to the bottom.
1940 C. Wright Mills in Amer. Sociol. Rev. 5 905 The social conduct or the (stated) programs of languaged creatures.
1965 Jrnl. Negro Educ. 34 171/2 We can at present secure a fair picture of the poorly languaged child or youth.
1992 New Yorker 13 Apr. 79/1 If Curtiss had been at the hospital's admissions desk on the day Genie arrived, she would have encountered a languaged person, in the sense that all children have some degree of language before they begin making use of it.
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the mind > language > a language > using or speaking languages > [adjective] > (of a person) of a particular kind
languaged1485
1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) vii. xxxvi. sig. pvijv This syr Gareth was a noble knyghte and a wel rulyd and fayr langaged.
1561 T. Hoby Breef Rehersall in tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer sig. Yy.iiii To be well spoken and faire languaged.
1616 W. Browne Britannia's Pastorals II. ii. 37 Well-languag'd Danyel.
1633 T. Heywood Eng. Trav. iii, in Wks. (1874) IV. 43 Pray be more open languag'd.
1652 F. Kirkman tr. A. Du Périer Loves Clerio & Lozia 44 Her gently languag'd mouth opened it self to disclose the dream to Vincia.
1668 Duchess of Newcastle Sociable Compan. ii. iv. 38 in Plays I cannot perceive it; for though I see many Fools, yet not a true natural Wit amongst them; for there is the Rhiming-fools, the Intrigue-fools, and the fine-languaged fools.
1826 H. H. Milman Anne Boleyn 16 Our good Queen..will sit Listening to thy sweet languaged lute.
3. Expressed in language, worded. Also with modifying word. Cf. many-languaged adj. at many adj., pron., n., and adv. Compounds 1a(a).
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > relating to mode of expression
languaged1646
expressional1803
phraseologic1803
phraseological1860
1646 S. Bolton Arraignment of Errour 236 Because an opinion comes languaged under the most receptible termes.
1873 T. Cooper Paradise of Martyrs i. lxxxiii. 42 All earth's languaged lore Could not my soul with potency endow To tell my dream.
1879 T. Seymour in W. D. Howells Yorick's Love in Staging Howells (1994) i. 299 Some of the highest languaged encounters where I had spent my very best on verse, I have, at his instance, resolved to their native prose.
1991 S. Crook Modernist Radicalism & its Aftermath iv. 126 It may well be that the ‘rationality’ which members routinely put into play in languaged interaction is not easily assimilated to the ‘Rationality’ of Habermas's universal validity claims.
2002 C. Flaskas Family Therapy beyond Postmodernism iii. 37 Is it possible, for example, that we have social and emotional realities outside our languaged constructions of them?
2007 Liverpool Echo (Nexis) 4 May 2 Usually, these ‘flowery’ languaged names only serve two purposes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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