yeared, a. or pa. pple.
(jɪəd, poet. ˈjɪərɪd)
Also 5 i-yeerid.
[f. year1 + -ed.]
1. † That has lived or lasted a given number of years; so many years of age, or of so many years' standing: as old i-yeerid = of old standing; twice yeared = that has lasted two years; yeared to thirty = thirty years of age (obs.). Also without qualification, That has lasted many years (poet.).
| c 1412 Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 1858 Þou of þe pryue seel art old I-yeerid. 1583 Burghley in Nicolas Mem. Sir C. Hatton (1847) 323 His [sc. Oxford's] fall in her Court, which is now twice yeared. 1603 B. Jonson Sejanus i. i, Year'd but to thirty. 1848 Bailey Festus (1852) 282 White with all yearéd snows and radiant rime. |
2. Phr. yeared and dayed, said of property left unclaimed for a year and a day, after which time the original owner's claim lapsed: see year1 7 b (a).
| 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. xv. 28 b, They maye..cease theym as streyes and put them in sauegarde to the lordes vse tyll they be yered and deyed. 1579 Admiralty Crt. Exemplifications 19 Nov. 105 There was driven..upon my libertie of Alverstoke..a certaine shipp..wheare she being yeered and daied according to the law of Oleron hath ever since remayned. |