degreed, a.
(dɪˈgriːd)
[f. degree n. (and v.).]
1. Having an academical degree. Also absol.
| 1560 in Strype Ann. Ref. I. xvii. 215 Such as be degreed in the Universities. 1905 Daily Chron. 11 July 3/2 The unfairness to the rate-payer,..to the class-teacher, to the non-collegiate, to the academical degreed. 1962 Guardian 17 Jan. 6/6 Degreed women are..very much the exception. 1967 Ibid. 28 June 6/5 Abstracts of papers by much-degreed ladies from the University of Saskatchewan. |
† 2. Made or done by gradations, graduated.
| 1581 Mulcaster Positions xi. (1887) 50 Musick..standeth vpon an ordinate, and degreed motion of the voice. |
† 3. Having a (specified) degree or rank. Obs.
| 1608 Heywood Rape of Lucree ii. iii, We, that are degreed above our people. 1656 S. H. Gold. Law 43 Are they not both (though differently degree'd), servants to one and the same Lord? |
† 4. Marked out in successive divisions. Obs.
| 1664 Power Exp. Philos. 23 Her two horns are all joynted and degreed like the stops in the germination of some Plants. |
5. Her. Of a cross: Placed upon ‘degrees’ or steps; = degraded.
| In mod. Dicts. |