crossed, a.
(krɒst, krɔːst)
Also crost.
[f. cross n. and v. + -ed.]
1. Marked with a cross, or with the sign of the cross; bearing or wearing a cross; having taken the cross. † crossed friars: = crutched friars.
| 1494, 1530 [see crutched]. 1529 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) V. 276 To be beried..under a crossed stone. 1625 Purchas Pilgrims ii. 1226 Many crossed Nobles were assembled at Lions, to goe to the Holy Land. 1774 Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) III. 341 The animal is called the crost fox. 1795 tr. Mercier's Fragments II. 426 Her crossed and mitred son. 1851 Dickens Child's Hist. Eng. xv. 124 White-crossed..they rushed into the fight. |
2. Placed or lying across each other; marked with lines drawn across; (of a letter) written with lines crossing at right angles. Of a cheque: marked with two parallel lines (see quot. 1957 and cross v. 7 c).
| 1834 Medwin Angler in Wales I. 235 A line..to which they attach several large crossed hooks. 1834 J. B. Byles Law of Bills (ed. 2) x. 129 Crossed checks. It is common practice in the city of London, to write across the face of a check the name of a banker. 1836 Mrs. Gaskell Let. 12 May (1966) 8 None of your nimini⁓pimini notes, but a sensible nonsensical crossed letter. 1865 Trollope Belton Est. i. 8 She did not..correspond with other girls by means of crossed letters. 1876 B. T. Bosanquet (title) Crossed cheques: the object of crossing, with suggestions as to the amendments required in the statutes relating thereto. 1877 Punch LXXII. 280/1 ‘Crossed cheques’ are only payable through bankers. 1957 Encycl. Brit. V. 413/1 The form [of a cheque] may be printed ‘crossed’; two lines being printed across it. A cheque so crossed can only be cashed through a banker. 1966 Listener 25 Aug. 291 (Advt.), Order through your bookseller or send crossed cheque. |
3. fig. Thwarted, opposed, etc.
| 1621 Lady M. Wroth Urania 203 All fortunes pass'd in my cross'd loue. 1691 tr. Emilianne's Frauds Rom. Monks 227 How great a change crost Desires are able to produce in the Body of man. 1798 Landor Gebir Wks. 1846 II. 488 Lest..crost ambition lose his lofty aim. |
† b. Having a ‘cross’ to bear; afflicted. Obs.
| a 1732 T. Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 99 The afflicted crossed party..is a gainer thereby, if his spirit is brought down to it. |
4. crossed (out): a. obliterated or cancelled by crossing lines; b. Watchmaking: see quot. 1874.
| 1874 Knight Dict. Mech., Crossed out, when the web of a wheel is sawed and filed away so as to leave a cross of four spokes or arms, it is said to be crossed out. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 69 [A] crossed out wheel. |