thewed, ppl. a.
(θjuːd)
Also 2 þeaud, 3–4 þeu(e)d, 3 i-þæwed, i-þeuwed.
[Orig. pa. pple. of thew v., but app. often treated as f. thew n.1 + -ed2.]
† 1. Trained, instructed in morals or manners; having qualities or manners (of a specified kind). Chiefly in compounds, as ill-thewed, well-thewed, etc., -mannered, -conditioned, -natured.
| c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 41 Þe wise man and þat wel þeaud child habbeð boðe on laȝe. c 1205 Lay. 6536 He wes swiðe soðfest and swiðe wel iðæwed [c 1275 i-þeuwed]. c 1374 Chaucer Compl. Mars 180 My lady is..so wel fortuned and thewed That thorow the worlde her goodnesse is yshewed. c 1440 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 856 [Foals] So thewed that from high quyete & reste Anoon they may be stered forto prike. 1456 Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 150 Men..full of vicis, ryotous and evil thewit. 1590 Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 26 Yet would not seeme so rude, and thewed ill As to despise so curteous seeming part. 1596 ― Hymne in Hon. Beautie 138 A beauteous soule, with faire conditions thewed. |
† b. spec. Having good qualities or manners.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 8425 Þe child es theud [v.rr. theued, þewed] and mild o mode, Lok þat he haf maister god. 13.. Ibid. 27632 (Fairf.) If þou be þewed al-so curtaise, Þen atte first I wille þe praise. 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 733 A.a.! blessed be þow,..so boner & þewed. [a 1601 ? Marston Pasquil & Kath. iii. 16 Nay, good Thewte hart: good kind lacke, stay.] |
2. Having thews or muscles (of a specified kind).
| 1864 Webster s.v., A well-thewed limb. 1865 Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 34 Do you know that lord With sharp-set eyes? and him with huge thewed throat? Ibid. iv. i. 116 You have a heart thewed harder than my heart. 1881 C. De Kay Vis. Nimrod iv. 71 A fearful beast..Amazing thewed, with fourfold plate-like horns. |