pamperedadj.

a1529 J. Skelton Vppon Deedmans Hed 25 For all oure pamperde paunchys, Ther may no fraunchys..Redeme vs from this.

1576 G. Gascoigne Steele Glas 366 Their stables ful yfraught with pampred Iades.

1606 J. Ford Fames Memoriall 34 Astonishing the chasse of pampered men, With high rear'd accents of their golden pen.

1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 38 The knotty Africanisms, the pamper'd metafors; the intricat, and involv'd sentences of the Fathers.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 106 The pamper'd Colt will Discipline disdain. View more context for this quotation

1751 E. Haywood Hist. Betsy Thoughtless I. xvi. 196 I have a constitution that will wear out twenty of your washy pampered landmen of not half my age.

1759 S. Johnson Idler 14 Apr. 113 A pampered body will darken the mind.

1792 M. Wollstonecraft Vindic. Rights Woman vi. 270 When a sense of duty..obliges them to restrain this pampered desire of pleasing..[women] obstinately determine to love.

1805 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 14 276 A pampered and consequently distempered imagination.

1853 E. Bulwer-Lytton My Novel III. x. xxv. 223 A very personation of the beauty and magnificence of careless, luxurious, pampered, egotistical wealth.

1911 F. H. Burnett Secret Garden xvi. 174 It's the best thing that could happen to the sickly pampered thing to have some one to stand up to him that's as spoiled as himself.

1949 G. R. Stewart Earth Abides i. iii. 47 As once, when the armies of the empire were shattered and the strong barbarians poured in upon the soft provincials, so now the fierce weeds pressed in to destroy the pampered nurslings of man.

2002 Cheshire Life Aug. 14/1 We do everything from getting dogs ready for show presentation to the pampered pooch.