fatted, ppl. a. Somewhat arch.
(ˈfætɪd)
[f. fat v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.; now only, fattened.
[to kill the fatted calf: proverbially used with reference to Luke xv.]
| 1552 Huloet, Fatted or dressed with fatte, adipatus, a, um. 1580 Baret Alv. F 215 A fatted hogge, saginatus porcus. 1611 Bible 1 Kings iv. 23 Beside.. fallow Deere, and fatted foule. 1647 Cowley Mistress, The Welcome i, Go, let the fatted Calf be kill'd. 1660 Hexham, Gemest landt, Dunged or Fatted land. 1725 Pope Odyss. ix. 49 The fatted sheep. 1870 Bryant Iliad I. ii. 54 Agamemnon Offered a fatted ox of five years old. 1875 Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 51 Pictures of the lean dogs and the fatted sheep. |