visored, vizored, ppl. a.
(ˈvaɪzəd)
[f. as prec. + -ed.]
1. a. Of persons: Having the face covered or hid with a visor or mask. Also fig., and of things.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 99 Þus in stede of cristis apostlis ben comen in viserid deuelis, to disceyuen men in good lif. 1571 Golding Calvin on Ps. xvi. 4 There is no cause why theis visord Nicodemusses should coker them⁓selves with this fond pretence. 1634 Milton Comus 698 Hast thou betrai'd my credulous innocence With visor'd falshood, and base forgery? 1827 Hallam Const. Hist. iv. (1876) I. 205 Martin Mar-prelate, a vizored Knight of those lists, behind whose shield a host of sturdy puritans were supposed to fight. 1876 Meredith Beauch. Career III. xv. 260 There was the enemy hard in front, mailed, vizored, gauntleted. |
b. In predicative use. (Cf. visor v.)
| c 1460 Wisdom 727 in Macro Plays 59 Here entrethe vj. Jorours..with hodis abowt her neckis, hattis of meyntenance þer-vp-on, vyseryde dyuersly. a 1470 Gregory Chron. in Hist. Coll. Cit. Lond. (Camden) 78 The Schottys came in to Inglonde in to the parke of Stanhope. And ther they were vyseryde for knowynge. 1813 Hogg Queen's Wake Concl. 325 The lofty brows of stern Clokmore Are visored with the moving cloud. 1830 A. E. Bray The Talba xx. 170 Did you not come, you and your companion, visored and shrouded,..to waylay our path. 1883 Swinburne Les Casquettes iii, Like heads of the spirits of darkness visored That see not for ever, nor ever have heard. |
2. a. Of a helmet: Furnished with a vizor.
| 1834 J. R. Planché Brit. Costume 136 The improued visored bascinet and camail. 1862 H. Marryat Year in Sweden I. 271 A soldier in a vizored helmet. 1898 Archaeol. Jrnl. LV. 119 The head-piece, which is a visored salade. |
b. Of a cap: peaked.
| 1950 Manch. Guardian Weekly 5 Oct. 15/2 The General left the 'plane, dressed in field jacket and visored, brass⁓encrusted cap. 1961 M. Beadle These Ruins are Inhabited (1963) ii. 30 The salesman spread out an impressive..array of..red-bound black blazers, visored caps, red bordered black Rugby socks. 1983 P. Chevalier Shaft xvii. 119 He was wearing exquisite yachting whites and a Navy-style visored cap. |