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a-hungered, ppl. a. arch.|əˈhʌŋgəd|
[perh. representing a lost OE. a-hyngred (cf. Germ. erhungert), or a later formation with a- prefix 1 intensive; but more probably a later form of of-hungered, OE. of-hyngred, pa. pple. of vb. of-hyngran to suffer hunger, be weak with hunger, be very hungry. Cf. afingered. By confusion of a- 2 and a- 3, the prefix was sometimes expanded to an-, on-; cf. a-high, an-hungered.]
Oppressed with hunger; very hungry.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 59 Bothe afyngred [v.r. a-hungred, an-hungred] and a-thurst [v.r. a-thrust, a-thrist, a-furst], and for chele quake. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xxv. (1495) 429 Alwaye he is a hungryd whyle he liuyth. 1567Jewel Def. Apol. (R.) When their eies were ful they put vp theire kniues and rose ahungred. 1820Keats Hyperion ii. 163 Saturn's ear Is all a-hunger'd. 1868Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy ii. 194 Soothe the frightened bird And feed the child a-hungered. |