opinioned, a. Now rare.
(əʊˈpɪnjənd)
[f. opinion n. + -ed.]
1. Having a (specified) opinion; holding the opinion, or of opinion (that{ddd}). Also in parasynthetic comb., as ill-opinioned, strange-opinioned.
| 1584 R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. i. vii. (1886) 11 How diverslie people be opinioned. 1631 Star Chamb. Cases (Camden) 42 The court was opinioned the words were spoken. 1650 Sir. R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Warres x. 6 Nor was Don John otherwise opinioned of a Truce. 1890 Pall Mall G. 10 Mar. 2/3 Is it so, that England as a whole is..so opinioned as to prefer a high order of eloquence to the principles of the Reformation? |
2. Holding a particular opinion or estimate, esp. a favourable one, of a person or thing; usually, Thinking highly of oneself or one's own qualities, conceited of.
| 1612 W. Sclater Sick Souls Salve 23 Was ever hypocrite thus opinioned of himselfe? 1667 Dryden Sir Martin Mar-all i. i, He's so opinion'd of his own Abilities, that he is ever designing somewhat. 1707 Norris Humility vi. 282 A man well opinioned of himself. |
3. Unduly attached to one's own opinion; opinionated.
| 1649 Milton Eikon. xiii. Wks. (1851) 443 Uzziah..was thrust out with a Leprosie for his opinion'd zeale, which he thought judicious. a 1716 South Serm. I. 298 (T.) He may cast him upon a bold self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper. |
Hence oˈpinionedness (self-oˈpinionedness).
| 1879 Daily News 22 Oct. 6/5 A peculiar kind of religious self-opinionedness sprang up, which tended to make each man more and more a law to himself. |