suppledadj.

1594 O. B. Questions Profitable Concernings 31* b When I shall finde that I tooke for suppled honie, to become stiffe darts.

1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades iii. 259 Let vs impart, Some ensignes of our strife to shew, each others suppled hart.

1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh Ep. Ded. 5 Why should not they prepare an Elixir for her out of their suppled eyes, rent heart-strings,..to preserve her at an exigent?

1662 T. Philipot Capellus Virbius 3 There might bee Som starts and leaps, which flow'd (brave Lord!) from Thee; On whom, as som not yet discovered Sours, Which doth to th' suppled Earth fresh Sap disburs, And through her veins melt's in a purling rill, Th' expiring King His Vigor did distill.

1700 J. Jones Myst. Opium Reveal'd xxxiii. 333 The Parts are most relaxed, suppled and lubricated.

1729 S. Madden Themistocles 42 Smooth Their suppled Limbs, to sooth the rougher Grasp of stronger Arms.

1771 R. Berenger Hist. & Art Horsemanship II. 161 The active and suppled horse..may be said, like a Chain, so to loosen and shift his limbs, as to break and divide himself as it were into parts.

1889 R. A. Nicholson tr. Preserv. of Health in Jrnl. Royal Asiatic Soc. Jan. 35 When his muscles are suppled and he has been gently rubbed, he should indulge in exercise.

1907 Educ. Dept. Bull. 27 Dec. 68 Against all the idolatry of objects and the degradation of knowledge to the functions of the procuress, stands the idea and ideal of a suppled and sympathetic wisdom.

1988 J. Froissard & L. Powell Classical Horsemanship for our Time vii. 51 Premature attempts to collect an insufficiently suppled or relaxed horse are self-defeating.