consumed, ppl. a.
(kənˈsjuːmd)
[f. consume v.1 + -ed.]
1. Used up, burnt up, wasted, spent, eaten up.
| 1601 Shakes. All's Well v. iii. 38 Not one word more of the consumed time. 1885 Law Times LXXIX. 130/1 Vestries consumed with gluttony and personal animosities. |
† 2. Wasted with disease; suffering from consumption. Obs.
| 1460–70 Bk. Quintessence (1890) 17 A man þat is almoost al consumed and waastid in al his body. 1572 J. Jones Bathes of Bath iv. 27 b, Yong men, leane, consumed..must eschue the bathes. 1655 C. Bennet Moufet's Health's Improv. (1746) 259 They recover sick and consumed Persons. |
† 3. = ‘Confounded’, as an expression of execration or dislike. b. as adv. = consumedly. Obs.
| 1707 Farquhar Beaux' Strat. ii. ii, The Roads are consumed deep. 1756 W. Toldervy Hist. Two Orphans II. 128 Those justices are consumed arbitrary folks. 1779 Sylph I. 19 A consumed long string of past transactions, that bore me to death. [I have met with expressions like ‘a consumed fool’. F. Hall.] |