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friended, ppl. a.|ˈfrɛndɪd|
[f. friend n. and v.]
a. Having a friend; possessed of or supplied with friends. Usually qualified by an adv. as ill, well, etc. friended.
b. In sense 3 of the vb.: Befriended (rare).
1530St. Papers Hen. VIII, VII. 243 Cassalis and other be so frendyd abought Yowr Grace, that they have avyses of al the tenour off yowr mooste honorable lettres writen hyther. 1568Tilney Disc. Mariage E iv, What avayleth it a man to have his wife of..good parentage, and wel friended, if [etc.]. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. (1605) 292 The curteous Amphialus..ranne ouer the head of his therein friended enemie. 1581Mulcaster Positions iv. (1887) 19 Who is so ill freinded, as he hath not one, with whom to conferre. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks, Although he was a man mightily friended, yet was he..banished. 1824Scott Redgauntlet let. xi, ‘He was weel-freended and at last he got the haill scraped thegither.’ 1884Edna Lyall We Two xl, I have been well ‘friended’ all my life, he said.
Prov.1538Starkey England i. iii. 86 For (as hyt ys commynly and truly also sayd) materys be endyd as they be frendyd. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 292 As a man is friended, so the law is ended. 1610Heywood Gold. Age i. i. Wks. 1874 III. 6 Causes best friended haue the best euent. |