buskined, ppl. a.
(ˈbʌskɪnd)
[f. buskin n. + -ed2.]
1. Shod or covered with buskins.
| 1590 Shakes. Mids. N. ii. i. 71 The bouncing Amazon Your buskin'd Mistresse. 1704 Pope Windsor For. 168 Her buskin'd Virgins. 1877 Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. iv. 104 A brown peasant boy of ten, with buskined legs. |
2. spec. Wearing the buskins of tragedy; fig. and transf., concerned with or belonging to tragedy.
| 1626 Massinger Rom. Actor i. i, The Greeks, to whom we owe the first invention Both of the buskined scene & humble sock. 1742 Young Nt. Th. vi. 349 See the buskin'd chief Unshod..Reduc'd to his own Stature. 1820 Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 135 They would be ranted on the stage by some buskined hero or tragedy queen. |
b. Tragic; dignified, elevated, lofty.
| 1595 Markham Sir R. Grinuile lxxi, Rich buskin'd Seneca. 1632 Brome Court Begg. iii. i. Wks. 1873 I. 220 Petra[r]k's buskin'd stile. a 1771 Gray Poems (1775) 35 In buskin'd measures move Pale Grief, and pleasing Pain. 1838–9 Hallam Hist. Lit. III. iii. vi. §98 The interest serious, but not always of buskined dignity. 1841 De Quincey Homer & H. Wks. VI. 393 To speak in a sort of stilted, or at least buskined language. |