measled, ppl. a.
(ˈmiːz(ə)ld)
Forms: 4 meselyd, 5 maselyd, meselled, 6 meseld, -led, mezeled, 6–7 measeled, 6–8 meazeled, 7 messeled, miselled, 7–8 meazled, 6– measled.
[f. measle n., a., and v. + -ed.]
1. Infected with measles.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vii. lxiv. (1495) 281 Meete that is soone corrupte as of meselyd hogges. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 329/1 Maselyd, serpiginosus. 1499 Maldon, Essex, Court Rolls (Bundle 58, no. 1v), Meselled hog. 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 52 Thy measeled bacon. 1647 New Haven Col. Rec. (1857) I. 342 [He] obiected against on of the hoggs w{supc}h was miselled. 1713 C'tess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 214 A Pestilential Sow, a meazeled Pork, On the foundation has been long at work. 1820 J. Jekyll Corr. (1894) 144 We dined at A. Ellis's last week with the Poodle who has buried his measled Majesties. 1876 tr. Wagner's Gen. Pathol. (ed. 6) 114 By the use of measled meat. |
2. Spotted.
| 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 213 One speckled fish..is called the poyson fish, tis shaped like a Tench, but meazled. 1706 Phillips, Meazled, full of Meazles, Spots, or Blotches. |
† 3. fig. Poor, ‘scurvy’. (Cf. measly 4.)
| 1596 Nashe Saffron-Walden Wks. (Grosart) III. 191 That meazild inuention of the Goodwife my mothers finding her daughter in the ouen, where [etc.]. |
Hence † ˈmeasledness, measled condition.
| 1611 Cotgr., Sursemure, the measeldnesse of Hogs. |