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featured, ppl. a.|ˈfiːtjʊəd|
[f. feature n. and v. + -ed.]
†1. Fashioned, formed, shaped. Usually preceded by adv. of manner, as evil featured, fair featured, fine featured, ill featured, well featured, for which see those words. Obs.
c1500Three Kings Sons 111 They were passing well fetured. c1540J. Heywood Four P.P. in Hazl. Dodsley I. 376 O prince of hell! Feutred in fashion abhominable. 1543Grafton Contn. Harding 468 Richard duke of Gloucestre..was..euill feautered of lymmes. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 51 The rich ring..without the fayr feawtered fiynger, iz nothing. 1627Hakewill Apol. i. iii. §3. 32 Horses better featured..then now. 1633Bp. Hall Hard Texts 279 Thy nose..is..featured like some curious Turret.
†b. Well-formed; comely, beautiful. Obs.
1567Turberv. Ovid's Epist. 10, I at natures hand no featurde face could gaine. 1587― Trag. T. (1837) 63 Their feitured limmes bedeckt. 1602Warner Alb. Eng. x. lix. (1612) 257 Love-worth Maacha..baire To Dauid featred Absalom. 1774Langhorne Country Justice i. 123 In the free Eye, the featur'd Soul display'd, Honour's strong Beam.
2. a. Shaped into features. b. Expressed by features or external form.
1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 70 The well-stain'd canvas, or the featur'd stone. a1779Langhorne Studley Park Poems (Chalmers) 418 Let..From Jones's hand the featur'd marble glow. 1794Mathias Purs. Lit. (1798) 349 Each strange form in motley masquerade, Featur'd grimace, and impudence pourtray'd. 1841Hor. Smith Moneyed Man III. ii. 50 Her smile was a featured sunbeam. 1850Lynch Theo. Trin. xii. 231 Our earth, the featured Definite Has meanings all divine.
3. Furnished with or having features of a certain cast, usually preceded by some qualifying word.
1790Pennant London (1813) 302 Angelic faces..featured with impudence. a1759Goldsm. Voltaire Wks. 1881 IV. 43 The Marquis d'Argent was graceful in person, regularly featured. 1850E. Elliott More Verse & Prose I. 18 Who is that small Napoleon-featur'd pleader? 1861W. F. Collier Hist. Eng. Lit. 405 That hard-featured..old forester.
Add:4. Made a feature or special attraction (in a play, film, etc.).
1897[see feature v. 4 b]. 1928Amer. Speech III. 23 The actor who is cast for ‘star’ or ‘featured’ parts. 1974Anderson (S. Carolina) Independent 23 Apr. 2 b/8 The featured performer..at a conference on the future of the Appalachian Mountain region. 1986Globe & Mail (Toronto) 30 Jan. d6/4 The featured artists were Paula Robison, flute; James Campbell, clarinet. |