▪ I. storied, a.1 and ppl. a.
(ˈstɔərɪd)
[f. story n.1 and v.1 + -ed. Cf. med.L. historiātus, OF. (h)istorié.]
1. Ornamented with scenes from history or legend by means of sculpture, painting, needlework or other art; also, inscribed with a legend or memorial record.
| 1481 Caxton Myrr. i. v. 25 Clerkis..that haue the precyous bookes richely lymned storyed and wel adoubed. 1624 Wotton Archit. ii. 98 As for other Storied Workes vpon Walles, I doubt our Clime bee too yeelding and moist, for such Garnishment. Ibid. 101 Marking in certaine Storied Sculptures, of oulde time, how precisely the parts and Lines of the Figures..doe meete. 1632 Milton Penseroso 159 And storied Windows richly dight, Casting a dimm religious light. 1750 Gray Elegy 41 Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? 1792 S. Rogers Pleas. of Mem. i. 53 The storied arras..With old achievement charms the wildered sight. 1808 Scott Marm. v. Introd. 185 As the ancient art could stain Achievements on the storied pane. 1862 Thrupp Anglo-Saxon Home 227 They occasionally wrought the storied mantles worn by kings at their coronation, on which mythological and historical subjects were delineated. 1876 Swinburne Erectheus 1727 One fair chaplet..To hang for ever from thy storied shrine. |
2. Celebrated or recorded in history or story.
| 1725 Pope Odyss. iv. 440 Each known disaster of the man disclose,..Recite them! nor in erring pity fear To wound with storied grief the filial ear. 1746 Francis tr. Horace, Art of Poetry 387 They scorn'd to take from Greece the storied Theme, And dar'd to sing their own domestic Fame. 1832 Tennyson ‘Love thou thy Land’ i, Love thou thy land, with love far-brought From out the storied Past, and used Within the Present. 1877 Mrs. Oliphant Makers of Flor. vii. 183 The many historical places..which attract the spectator in the storied city of Florence. 1903 Athenæum 1 Aug. 151/1 To set out upon as adventurous and entertaining a career as that of any of his storied forbears in Baghdad. |
▪ II. storied, a.2
(ˈstɔərɪd)
Also storeyed.
[f. story n.2 + -ed.]
Having stories, divided into stories.
Frequently in parasynthetic formations, as one-, two-, three-storied, for which see the first element.
| 1624 Wotton Archit. i. 40 We meane in a Dorique, Ionicall, Corinthian Porch, or Cloister, or the like of one Contignation, and not in Storied buildings. 1820 Shelley Prometh. Unb. iv. 344 Each crag-like tower, and storied column. 1855 Hawthorne Eng. Note-Bks. (1883) I. 582 It seemed possible to shake hands from one jutting storied old house to another. 1858 Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VI. liii. 356 A vast extent of gardens, with their baths, their fish-ponds, and their storied terraces. 1903 Architect 24 Apr. 269/1 A porch may often be carried up to form a storeyed tower with happy effect. |