visioned, ppl. a.
(ˈvɪʒənd)
[f. vision n. or v.]
1. Seen in a vision.
| 1510 Clereville (title), The Copye of the letter folowynge which specifyeth of y⊇ greatest and meruelous visyoned batayle that euer was sene. |
| 1803 Scott Cadyow Castle xxix, Whose cheek is pale, whose eyeballs glare, As one some vision'd sight that saw. 1807 J. Barlow Columb. i. 19 Till vision'd ages, opening on his eyes, Cheer'd his sad soul. 1838 Chalmers Introd. Ess. Chr. Def. agst. Infidelity Wks. 1849 XIII. 298 The battles of the faith against the dark and the visioned spectres of geology. 1863 Ld. Lytton Ring Amasis ii. iii. xiii, As..he pressed that solemn kiss upon the visioned thing I could not see. |
2. Associated with, arising from, a vision or visions.
| 1817 Scott Harold vi. xii, Trembling at first,..Had Gunnar heard the vision'd tale. 1822 Beddoes Bride's Trag. iv. iv, I dreamed and in that visioned agony 'Twas whispered by strange voices [etc.]. 1853 Jerdan Autobiog. III. 170 In her inmost abstract and visioned moods..she was the Poet. 1891 C. Dawson Avonmore iv. 79 Braver from that visioned thought, I duty did and duty sought. |
3. Gifted with vision; having the power of seeing visions.
| 1813 Shelley Q. Mab i. 68 The visoned poet in his dreams, When silvery clouds float through the 'wildered brain. 1830 Moir Tower of Ercildoune iv, Methinks the visioned bard I see..Piercing the mazy depths of Time. 1866 R. S. Storrs Serm. in Bible Soc. Rec. Feb. (1894), Of such a majestic teacher as Ezekiel, the visioned prophet,..we know almost nothing. |
4. Full of visions.
| 1815 Shelley Alastor 682 The dream Of dark magician in his visioned cave. |