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▪ I. loved, a.|ˈlʌvd, ˈlʌvɪd|
Also 3–4 lovid, Sc. 4–5 lowit, luffit, 5 lufyd, lwfyt, 5–6 lowyt, luifit, 6 luvit, 6–7 lovit, (9 arch. lovite).
[f. love v.1 + -ed1.]
1. a. In senses of the vb.; in attributive use now chiefly poet., exc. with prefixed adv. as dearly-loved, much-loved; ordinarily superseded by beloved.
a1300Cursor M. 10416 Þis leuedi was o mikel prise, Loued and lered, bath war and wise. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvi. (John Baptist) 322 Þis is my luffit sone & dere. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1639 O lowit leid, with worschip wys and wicht. 1513Douglas æneis ii. xii[i]. 46 Thy weping..Quhilk thou makis for thi luifit Crewsay. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 46 To compas thy desire, and find that loved knight. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. vi. (1632) 209 In loued lakes they striue. 1706Rowe Ulysses v. Wks. 1747 I. 407 I'll fly, as I have sworn For thy lov'd sake, far from the Sight of Man. 1750Gray Elegy (1st draught) 92 Thy once loved haunt, this long deserted shade. 1866M. Arnold Thyrsis xii, Many a dingle on the loved hill-side.
b. absol. or n. A person beloved.
1435Misyn Fire of Love ii. viii. 87 Þer spekys þe lufyd to þe hart of þe lufar. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. v. 29 Britomart..Upon her first adventure forth did ride, To seeke her lov'd. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. v, By what Pre-established Harmony of occurrences did the Lover and the Loved meet one another in so wide a world? 1898G. Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 51 This loved and scourged of angels.
c. loved one. (i) A beloved, a lover; pl., one's family or relations. (ii) A dead relation (spouse, etc.). Freq. with capital initials.
1862M. B. Chesnut Diary 9 June (1949) xiv. 240 How many, many of your friends and loved ones this scrap of paper may tell you have gone to their death. 1879Geo. Eliot Let. 20 Feb. (1956) VII. 104, I want, if I can, to write a ‘characteristik’ of my loved one—no memoir, but a brief sketch. 1906Chesterton Charles Dickens viii. 187 To ask for the loved one, and then not to dare to cross the threshold. 1926A. Huxley Jesting Pilate iv. 272 Lay the Loved Ones to rest in—Graveyard, the Cemetery Unusual. 1938D. Castle Do Your Own Time iii. 35, I sat idly drawing designs on my writing-paper while nineteen heartsick men began writing to their loved ones. 1948E. Waugh (title) The loved one. 1968Guardian 17 Aug. 8/1 Montpellier has just acquired..Europe's first funeral parlour on the American model..the Loved Ones make their final appearances in rooms done up in sky blue, water green, pink, or beige. 1971Progress (Cape Town) May 8/3 In many cases these people would have to travel more than two or three hundred miles to be with their loved ones. 1973Advocate-News (Barbados) 22 Jan. 12/1 (Advt.), For a smaller charge, we do not only intimate about the Birth, Baptism, Confirmation, Marriage and Death of your loved ones in our Classified Columns we also give a lasting record of the event for posterity.
2. Sc. In royal and feudal documents, prefixed to personal names or designations; equivalent to the ‘trusty and well-beloved’ of English charters. † Often with plural ending.
1460Charters etc. Peebles (1872) 135 Our lwfyt burges Ihon Smayll. 1461Ibid. 140 Our luffit burges and nychtbur Andro Mylner. 1543Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 189 Thair lowyt seruitour, Maister Edward Menzes. 1545Ibid. 217 To our louittis cousingis, bailzeis, counsale, and communitie of Abirdene. 1637Sc. Prayer Bk. Proclam., Charles..to our Lovits Messengers. 1868Act 31 & 32 Vict. c. 101 Sched. (QQ), [‘Form to be used under this Act’.] It is humbly shown to us by our lovite A.B., complaner, against C.D. [etc.].
▸ loved-up adj. slang (chiefly Brit.). (a) under the influence of the drug Ecstasy; experiencing a feeling of euphoria, heightened affection, or sensuality induced by Ecstasy; (also) relating to or producing such an experience; (b) in love, amorous (esp. intensely so, as if under the influence of the drug Ecstasy).
Quot. 1963, although a figurative use of to love up (see love v.1 1g), shows an early association of the effects of mind-altering drugs with those of love.
[1963F. Seidel Final Solutions in Poems 1959–79 (1989) Doped up and heartless, Loved up by heroin, running out of veins.] 1991Face Dec. 75/1 So all the lads became *loved-up? No, this wasn't a cure for violence. 1995Unique June 81/1 It's not every day that you meet two such loved-up people and you could be missing out on a lot of fun. 1998S. Reynolds Energy Flash ii. 46 Back in 1988..the heartless hoolie turned loved-up nutter was proof that Ecstasy really was a wonder drug, the agent of a spiritual and social revolution. 2002B Jan. 86/3 As for the rest of the gang I probably see more of them than Tom does because he's so loved-up with Fay!
▪ II. loved
obs. form of loafed.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. xxxvi. §5. 246 There is another sort of Cabbage or loued Colewoort. |