anhungered, ppl. a. arch.
(ænˈhʌŋgəd)
[app. for earlier a-hungred (an- for a- before vowel: see an- prefix 5):—of-hungred:—OE. of-hyngrod (cf. a-thirst, OE. of-þyrsted, a-down, OE. of-d{uacu}ne): see a-hungered, of-hungered. Later variants were en-hungered, in-hungered; the sequence being apparently of-, a-, an-, en-, in-.]
1. Overcome with hunger, hungry.
| c 1300 K. Alis. 1229 The folk and the poraile weoren an-hungred. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 59 (Oriel MS.) Bothe an-hungred [v.r. afyngerd, a-hungred] and a-þrist. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. ix. (1495) 195 The nouryce fedyth the childe whan it is an hungred. 1526 Tindale Matt. xii. 1 His disciples wer anhongred. 1557 Genev., anhongred. 1611 Bible, an hungred. [So 1881 Revised.] |
2. fig. Eagerly desirous, longing.
| 1848 Lowell Poet. Wks. 1879, 398 Anhungered for some joy untried. 1881 Swinburne Mary Stewart iv. i, My people seems in sooth Hot and anhungered on this trail of hers. |