hanged, ppl. a.
(hæŋd)
[f. hang v. + -ed1.]
1. Suspended, etc.; see the verb. (Now Obs. in the general sense; the form in use being hung.)
2. Put to death by hanging by the neck.
| 1470–85 Malory Arthur vii. xvi, The syghte of these hanged knyghtes. 1508 Dunbar Flyting w. Kennedie 187 Reistit and crynit as hangitman on hill. 1599 Minsheu Dial. Sp. & Eng. 68 A rope of a hanged man. 1876 Mr. Gray & Neighb. I. 205 England was ‘merrie’..for the hangers, though scarcely quite so ‘merrie’ and pleasant, perhaps, for the hanged. |
b. As an expletive (also advb.): ‘Confounded’, ‘cursed’.
| 1887 Poor Nellie (1888) 102 A hanged uncomfortable position for a fellow to be in. Ibid. 105 A confounded bad dinner and hanged bad wine. |
† 3. Furnished or decorated with hangings. Obs. or arch.; usually hung.
| 1451 in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) III. 351 An hanged bed. 1562 J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 179 Walles, Som seeld, som hangd. 1626 Bacon Sylva §144 Musick is better in Chambers Wainscotted than Hanged. 1876 Brewer Eng. Studies iii. (1881) 117 The king's chamber and the rooms adjoining were matted and hanged. |