indulged, ppl. a.
(ɪnˈdʌldʒd)
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Gratified or favoured by compliance; humoured, etc. (see the verb).
| 1736 Butler Anal. ii. vi. 300 If there be a strong bias within, suppose from indulged passion, to favour the deceit. 1831 Keble Serm. v. (1848) 107 Partaking in other men's sins, merely by brooding over them in fancy, with anything like indulged approbation or sympathy. |
2. That has received or accepted an Indulgence; in Sc. Hist. applied to those Presbyterian ministers, who, in the reigns of Charles II and James II, were licensed to hold services under certain conditions: see indulgence 4.
| 1682 Sec. Plea Nonconf. 37 When His Majesty was moved to grant an Indulgence, the indulged were to give their Names, and their Places. 1693 Apol. Clergy Scot. 105 Mr. Rate, then Minister of Dundee, an Indulg'd Presbyterian. 1816 Scott Old Mort. v, My uncle..is of opinion that we enjoy a reasonable freedom of conscience under the indulged clergymen. |