ˈhigh-wrought, a.
1. Agitated or excited to a high degree.
| 1604 Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 2 It is a high wrought Flood. 1702 Rowe Tamerl. v. i, The high-wrought Tempest in my Soul. 1814 Scott Wav. xxvii, The present high-wrought state of his feelings. |
2. Wrought with exquisite art or skill; ‘accurately finished, nobly laboured’ (J.).
| 1728 Pope Dunc. ii. 187 Thou triumph'st, Victor of the high-wrought day, And the pleas'd dame, soft smiling, lead'st away. 1838 Lytton Alice v. vi, She understood not his high-wrought scruples. |