▪ I. † ˈloaden, ppl. a. Obs.
[Strong pa. pple. of load v.]
1. = heavy-laden 2. Also absol.
| 1542–5 Brinklow Lament. (1874) 82 Come vnto me all ye that laboure and are loden (meaninge with sinne). 1653 Binning Serm. (1845) 427 This we preach unto you, that until you be wearied and loaden, you will not cast your burden on Jesus. 1711 Shaftesbury Charac. (1737) II. iii. i. 386 Large Creatures; who..go led and loaden thro those dry and barren Places! |
2. Loaded, charged, weighted, laden.
| 1600 Surflet Country Farme v. xviii. 694 You must haue speciall regard to sowe them [Beanes] all about the fifteenth daie after the change of the moone, bicause that in so doing, they will bee the better loaden. 1619 Fletcher & Massinger False One iv. iii, Pitty me, Pitty a loaden man. 1639 Mass. Col. Rec. (1853) I. 266 A loaden horse carrying a sack of corne. 1704 Addison Italy (1733) 105 The Seas..Shove the loaden Vessels into Port. 1725 Pope Odyss. ix. 274 The loaden shelves afford us full repast. a 1774 Goldsm. tr. Scarron's Com. Romance (1775) I. 289 Certain peasants who attended a loaden cart. 1792 C. Smith Desmond I. 213 Those majestic and deeply-loaden clouds. |
▪ II. loaden, v. Obs. exc. dial.
(ˈləʊd(ə)n)
Also 6 loden.
[f. load n. + -en5.]
trans. = load v., in various senses. Hence ˈloadened ppl. a.
| 1568 Queen Elizabeth Let. to Mary Q. Scots 21 Dec. in H. Campbell Love Lett. Mary (1824) App. 55 We did not thynk..to have seen or heard such matters of so great apparence & moment to charge & loden yow. 1628 Gaule Pract. Theory (1629) 167 That they straiten not our Thoughts, ere they loaden our Backes. 1638–48 G. Daniel Eclog. i. 213 Our loadned trees Beare equall Burthens. 1658 Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 96 A loadned and ballasted ship. 1768 Sterne Sent. Journ. (1775) I. 52 (Letter) He had loaden'd himself in going up stairs with a thousand compliments to Madame. 1790 A. Wilson Poems & Lit. Prose (1876) II. 278 With ripe fruit the loaden'd bough Bends to the swaird. 1877 N.W. Linc. Gloss., Loadened, loaded. ‘I wen't hev loaden'd guns browt into th' hoose’. 1880 Antrim & Down Gloss. s.v., I was told to loaden up with flax. 1889 M. Peacock Lincs. Tales 127 When he's tekken his jackit off to help to loäden a cart. |