garbled, ppl. a.
(ˈgɑːb(ə)ld)
[f. garble v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.
| 1623 St. Papers Col. 144 Cloves..the price set at 6s. 6d. garbled and 5s. 8d. ungarbled. 1774 Burke Sp. Amer. Tax. Wks. 1842 I. 167 The fullest, most impartial, and least-garbled body of evidence that ever was produced to this house. 1814 R. Bland Prov. I. Pref. 10 This garbled edition was printed at Florence. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xix. 354 The Just Vindication consists chiefly of garbled extracts from the Areopagitica of Milton. 1871 Blackie Four Phases i. 54 A garbled statement constructed upon the principle of pushing into prominence everything that is bad. |