poisoned, ppl. a.
(ˈpɔɪz(ə)nd)
[f. poison v. + -ed1.]
1. Of men or animals: Affected with, sickened with, or killed by poison.
| c 1300 Cursor M. 21056 (Edin.) Þe pussund [v. rr. puisund, poysoned] men he raisid raþe Þat war stan-dede for suilc a drinc. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 407/1 Poysenyd, intoxicatus, virulentus. 1483 Cath. Angl. 295/1 Pusond, toxicatus, venenatus. 1898 Allbutt's Syst. Med. V. 887 In certain poisoned conditions of blood..fatty degeneration of the muscular fibres of the heart may be very extensive. 1899 Ibid. VIII. 641 There is a distinct history of a poisoned wound. |
b. fig. Affected with moral poison; corrupted.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens iii. lxxx. 430 A Pharisee, who maketh a glorious and beautifull shewe, but inwardly is of a corrupt and poysoned nature. |
2. Impregnated, imbued, charged, or smeared with poison.
| 1470–85 Malory Arthur xviii. iii. 729 And soo it befelle..a good knyght..to take a poysond Appel. 1600 J. Pory tr. Leo's Africa Introd. 27 Which causeth them to shoote poisoned arrowes. 1605 Shakes. Macb. i. vii. 11 This euen⁓handed Iustice Commends th' Ingredience of our poyson'd Challice To our owne lips. 1725 De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 89 For fear of poisoned arrows. |
b. fig. Charged with moral poison.
| 1567 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 537 That the youtheid be nocht infectit be poysonit doctrine. 1611 Bible Transl. Pref. 3 The Scripture is..a Physi[ci]ons-shop of preseruatiues against poisoned heresies. 1741 Middleton Cicero II. x. 391 The flatteries and poisoned honors of the Senate. |
† 3. Endowed with poison; venomous. Obs.
| 1533 More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1063/2 Al y⊇ poysoned serpentes of hell. 1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 124 Taken out of the heade of the poysoned Dragon. 1582 Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 58 The owtpeaking from weeds of poysoned adder. |
† b. fig. Full of moral poison; envenomed, malignant. Obs.
| 1508 Dunbar Flyting 70 It salbe blawin owt, How that thow, poysonit pelor, gat thy paikis. 1588 Marprel. Epist. (Arb.) 3 Right poysond, persecuting and terrible priests. |