▪ I. † ˈbended, a. Obs.
[f. bend n.2]
Striped or banded; in Her. having a bend or bends; = bendy a.
| c 1400 Mandeville 276 Five saphires bended with gold. c 1430 Syr Gener. 4538 Hou he with the bended sheld Smote the othre thurgh the bodie. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 85 b, One greate difference betwene Armes Bended, and these Armes..For in Armes Bendee the colours contained in the shielde are equally diuided. |
▪ II. bended, ppl. a.
(ˈbɛndɪd)
The original pa. pple. of bend v., superseded in ME. by bend, bent, but used again, from 14th c. onwards, as a longer form of bent (q.v. for the sense); it is now semi-archaic, and used chiefly in on bended knees, etc.
| 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xviii. iii. (1495) 749 The hornes of a ramme ben crokyd and bended as a rounde shell. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, v. Chor. 18 His bruised Helmet, and his bended Sword. 1660 Blount Boscobel 55 And now on my bended knees, let me joyfully congratulate His restored Majesty. c 1790 J. Imison Sch. Arts I. 73 Fix the bended glass-pipe C air-tight into the bottle D. 1810 Scott Lady of L. v. ix, Bonnets and spears and bended bows. 1837 Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar iv. (1844) 176 ‘Gracious Sovereign,’ replied the Chancellor, dropping off the Woolsack upon his bended knees. |