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waged, ppl. a.|weɪdʒd|
[f. wage v. + -ed1.]
Hired for wages; paid by wages. † Of soldiers: Mercenary (obs.).
c1440Engl. Conq. Irel. (1896) 23 We come not into this londe as wagid men. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. ix. 193 So weel wagid bischopis. 1462J. Paston in P. Lett. II. 121, I may get leve for to send non of my wagyd men home ageyn. 1535Coverdale Jer. xlvi. 21 Hir wagied souldyers that be with her, are like fat calues. 1579Moysie Mem. Affairs Scot. (Bannatyne Club) 21 For the quhilk effect theare wer iij⊇ waidged men teane vp vpone the Kingis expensse. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 123/2 Let us mark..that we may be watchfull to fight against Sathan, and his waged men. 1590Barrow & Greenwood in Confer. 46 You stand a waged Minister vnder them. 1617Moryson Itin. ii. 92 Florence mac Carty..refused to give his son for pledge, lest his waged souldiers should cast him out of his Countrey. 1829Scott Anne of G. xxxv, Wouldst thou aid the enemy of the lord under whose banner thou servest, against his waged soldiers? 1870Daily News 18 June, The continued want of employment among those who live by waged labour.
†b. In bad sense: Bribed. Obs.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. 290 Y⊇ leud babblers which do let out to hier the seruice of their waged tonge. |