▪ I. taught, ppl. a.
(tɔːt)
[pa. pple. of teach v., which see for earlier forms.]
1. Of a person: Instructed, trained; † learned (obs.). Now usually absol., ‘the taught’, or in comb. with adverbs, as ill-taught, well-taught.
| 1382 Wyclif Eccl. ii. 16 The taȝt man dieth also and the vntaȝt. ? a 1400 Morte Arth. 178 Alle with taghte mene and towne in togers fulle ryche. 1483 Cath. Angl. 377/1 Tawght, doctus, instructus. 1552 Huloet, Taught or newlye instructed, catechizatus. 1831–3 E. Burton Eccl. Hist. iv. (1845) 72 The mere necessity of instruction would give to the teachers a superiority over the taught. 1860 Pusey Min. Proph. 283 Truth of knowledge is the same in the Teacher and the taught. |
2. Of a subject, art, etc.: Conveyed by instruction: see teach v. 5.
| 1909 Westm. Gaz. 4 May 5/1 This, we are assured, was not a taught trick, but a perfectly natural demonstration. |
Hence † ˈtaughtly adv., learnedly, skilfully.
| 1382 Wyclif Wisd. xiii. 11 If any crafti man..hewe of the wode an euene tree, and of this taȝtli [1388 perfitli; Vulg. docte] pare awei al the rinde. |
▪ II. taught
pa. tense and pple. of teach v.; var. taut a.