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ˈvizarded, ppl. a.
[f. vizard v.]
1. Disguised with a vizard; wearing a vizard; visored, masked. Used (a) predicatively or (b) attributively. Also fig.
(a)1593Nashe Christ's T. 71 b, Your mornelike christall countenances shall be netted ouer, and (Masker-like) cawle⁓visarded, with crawling venomous wormes. 1598Marston Sco. Villanie ii. vii. (1599) 207 She is so vizarded,..I cannot see her face. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. iii. 83 Degree being vizarded, Th'vnworthiest shewes as fairely in the Maske. 1650R. Stapylton Strada's Low C. Wars vii. 64 These two prostrated Figures..were armed with Petitions,..their faces Vizarded; their Eares and Necks hung with little dishes [etc.]. 1756F. Brooke Old Maid No. 29. 243 The obsequious lover approaches in a mask: to say the truth, the lady is generally as well vizarded as he can be.
(b)a1637B. Jonson Love Restored Wks. (Rtldg.) 588/1 Masq. Have you recovered your voice to rail at me? Plu. No, vizarded impudence. 1658W. Sanderson Life K. Charles 1138 He..humbly bowed down his generous neck to God, to be cut off by the vizarded Executioner. 1691tr. Emilianne's Frauds Romish Monks 400 Many Vizarded Lackeys came forth with Flambeaus to Light them in. 1715tr. C'tess D'Anois' Wks. 410 Four vizarded Ruffians.
2. fig. Assumed, pretended.
1663J. H. Hist. O. Cromwell xi. 16 Oliver.., in a passion, and transported beyond his vizarded sanctity, with an oath..dissolved them. a1688G. Stradling Serm. & Disc. (1692) 350 Bodily worship..which usually concluded like the Turkish Lents after the vizarded austerity of a few spare hours in nightly Bacchanals. |