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honeyed, honied, a.|ˈhʌnɪd|
Forms as in honey n.; also 5 hownyd.
[f. honey n. + -ed2.]
1. Abounding in or laden with honey; sweetened as with honey; consisting of or containing honey.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. metr. ii. 54 (Camb. MS.) Al thowh þat the pleynynge bysynesse of men yeueth hem honyede drynkes and large metes. 1551Turner Herbal i. H vj b, Wyne lyke vnto honyed wyne. 1601Holland Pliny I. 422 Of Hydromel and Oxymel (i. Honied water, and Honied vineger). 1657W. Coles Adam in Eden lviii, The remedy is to drink honyed water. 1791Cowper Odyss. vii. 139 The honied fig, and unctuous olive smooth. 1801Med. Jrnl. V. 61 Diabetic urine..marked by a saccharine or honied taste. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. lxxxvii, Still his honied wealth Hymettus yields. 1841–71T. R. Jones Anim. Kingd. (ed. 4) 329 Honeyed fluids from the flowers.
2. fig. Sweet; sweet-sounding, dulcet, mellifluous.
1435Misyn Fire of Love ii. v. 79 Þe sweitt honyd mynde of Ihesu. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxvii. 17 With gall in hart, and hwnyt hals. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, i. i. 50 His sweet and honyed Sentences. 1639T. Brugis tr. Camus' Mor. Relat. 244 Whom we will call by the name of Mela, for the honeyed sweetnesse of her disposition. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 351 Conviction hung On soft Persuasion's honied tongue. 1852M. Arnold Tristr. & Iseult II. 47 Silken courtiers whispering honied nothings.
Hence ˈhoneyedly adv., sweetly, in dulcet tones. ˈhoneyedness, sweetness as of honey.
1611Cotgr., Emmielleure, sweetnesse, honiednesse. 1849Clough Dipsychus ii. vi. 46, I too..Can speak, not honiedly, of love and beauty, But sternly of a something much like duty. 1887Mrs. C. Reade Maid o' Mill I. xix. 286 ‘I'll be your chaperon, if I may’, honeyedly. |