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travailed, ppl. a.|ˈtrævəld, -eɪld|
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
1. Wearied in body or mind; troubled; harassed. Obs. or arch.
c1420Prov. in Rel. Ant. I. 233 Wele traveled wymen or wele traveled horsses were never good. c1540tr. Pol. Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden) I. 79 Agricola issuinge owte of his tentes succored and refresshed his traveled soldiers. 1644Milton Educ. Wks. 1738 I. 140 Composing their travail'd spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies. 1832L. Hunt Poems 255 Could my spirit..Slip from my travailled flesh.
†2. Experienced, versed, or learned (in a subject, etc.), as the result of working at it. (Cf. well-read.)
1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) A iij b, Your grace [Edw. VI]..little needeth any helpe.., beeyng so well trauailed bothe in the Greke and in the Latine. 1647Torshell Design 18 Daniel was a man..much travelled in Revelations. 1742Fielding Jos. Andrews ii. ix, I am not much travelled in the history of modern times.
3. That is or has been in travail or child-bed.
1842R. S. Hawker Cornish Ballads, etc. (1908) 130 A cottage bed, for there A travailed woman lay. |