foughten, ppl. a.
(ˈfɔːt(ə)n)
[Archaic form of pa. pple. of fight v.: see prec.]
1. foughten field: one in which there is or has been fighting; a battle-field. Obs. exc. poet.
| 1568 Grafton Chron. II. 424 Was taken prisoner..in a pitched and foughten fielde. 1676 Hobbes Iliad 78 With all the horrour of a foughten field. 1819 Keats Otho i. iii, A thousand foughten fields. 1870 Edgar Runnymede 53 You will doubtless live to see..many foughten fields. |
2. Of persons: † a. That has fought (obs.). b. Sc. forfoughten.
| 1631 Chapman Cæsar & Pompey Plays 1873 III. 166 So many staid and dreadfull soldiers?..long foughten? 1786 Burns Twa Dogs 173 Are we sae foughten an' harrass'd. |