weaponed, pa. pple. and ppl. a.
(ˈwɛpənd)
[f. weapon v. and n. + -ed1, -ed2.
OE. had wǽpned male (cf. weapon n. 3).]
Furnished with weapons or a weapon; armed.
| (a) c 1000 ælfric N.T. (Gr.) 18/19 He com þa ᵹewæmnod. a 1122 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 992, Hi..þæt scip ᵹenamon eall ᵹewæpnod & ᵹewædod. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 3373 Wopened he ben a-gen israel. 1352 Minot Poems iv. 39 He broght folk..Þat ful wele wapnid were. 1387 Trevisa Higden VII. 359, I and þow be here allone, iliche wel i-horsed and i-wepened. c 1450 in Kingsford Chron. Lond. (1905) 136 And all this tyme chorlys of Normandy weren wepond, and born harnes. 1600 Looke about You C 4, You see I am weapned..Ile stab them come there twenty. a 1652 Brome Queenes Exch. ii. iii, They are three sturdy knaves and strongly weapon'd. 1813 Scott Rokeby v. xxxii, For they were weaponed, and prepared Their mistress on her way to guard. a 1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air i. (1863) 8, I was weaponed with a staff, should brute or biped uncourteous dispute our way. 1907 M{supc}Carthy Needles & Pins xx, You shall be well clad, well weaponed, well horsed. |
| (b) c 1200 Ormin 10225 Þe cnihhtess wærenn wæpnedd follc. c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 2479 Wel wopnede men. c 1425 Eng. Conq. Ireland 10 Robert..sette the bowmen for to wer the fight of the kernels, and turned the wepned men to fill þe diches. 1535 Coverdale Prov. vi. 11 Necessite [shall come to us] like a wapened man. 1603 T. Wale in Lismore Papers Ser. ii. (1887) I. 65 There should be two hundreth weaponed men put into armes by the cyttie. 1680 C. Nesse Church Hist. 372 In the sight and despight of sixty weaponed witnesses. 1798 W. Taylor in Robberds Mem. (1843) I. 219 The weapon'd slaves of tyranny. 1898 Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 76 Her weaponed children's moan Of stifled rage invoking vengeance. |
b. quasi-
Her.| 1685 H. More Illustr. Daniel etc. 344 He alone is said to ride weaponed, viz. with a Sword coming out of his mouth. 1762 tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. V. 413 A griffin gules, crowned Or and weaponed, in a field azure. |
c. fig.| c 1200 Ormin 677 Whas itt iss þatt wæpnedd iss Wiþþ fulle trowwþe o Criste. 1548 Udall etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xxi. 5–11 Great pestilences..shal..consume a mightie great noumbre of people in sort as though the aire were armed & weaponed to doe vengeaunce vpon the euil sort. 1563 Shute Archit. 3 b, Yf a man myght be parfaict in al these sciences as were Aristarchus,..Architas, [etc.]..(for all these were strongely weaponed with al these sciences before rehersed). 1616 J. Hayward Sanct. Troub. Soul i. iii. (1620) 10, I was come to a greater staiednesse,..I was warned, I was weaponed; I was instructed, I was encouraged. 1839 J. Sterling Poems 156 The scathed and haggard face of will, And look so strong with weaponed thought. 1844 Emerson Ess. xx. Wks. (Bohn) I. 249 We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic. 1860 ― Cond. Life vi. ibid. II. 408 In all the encounters that have yet chanced, I have not been weaponed for that particular occasion, and have been historically beaten. 1916 Edin. Rev. July 15 ‘Responsible Government’..may also be found incompatible with that kind of weaponed and sentinelled peace that will follow the conflict. |
d. transf. (
Cf. weapon n. 1 d, 3.)
| 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 126 It [the ass] is a woonderful Coltishe beast, & vnreasonably weapned [L. animal mire salax, & pro corporis portione membrosius]. 1643 Milton Divorce 2 Yet they shall, so they be but found suitably weapon'd to the lest possibilitie of sensuall enjoyment, be made, spight of antipathy, to fadge together. 1810 Southey Kehama xvi. xiii, His mouth, from ear to ear, Weapon'd with triple teeth, extended wide. |