crippled, ppl. a.
(ˈkrɪp(ə)ld)
[f. prec. + -ed.]
Deprived of the use of one's limbs; lame, disabled; also transf. and fig.: see the verb.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 19048 (Cott.) Þar sagh þai lij, A man was criplid in þe parlesi. 1591 Percivall Sp. Dict., Contrecho, weake, cripled. 1674 N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 173 It has no crutches to lean its crippled burden on. 1779–81 Johnson L.P., Somervile, If blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous, it is crippled prose. 1810 Rowley in Naval Chron. XXV. 162 One of them..had a crippled frigate in tow. 1864 Ld. Derby Iliad i. 712 The crippled Vulcan, matchless architect. |