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purpled, ppl. a.|ˈpɜːp(ə)ld|
Also 5 perpulid.
[f. purple a., n., and v. + -ed: cf. L. purpurātus.]
Coloured, stained, tinged, or dyed purple; hence, blood-stained, dyed with blood; clothed in purple. Also fig.
c1400Apol. Loll. 44 Not.. to be gilt bridils, peyntid sadels, ne siluern sporis, nor perpulid aray. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 184 A Princely Senate of proude purpled Cardinals. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 322 All with purpled hands, Dide in the dying slaughter of their foes. 1712–14Pope Rape Lock ii. 2 Not with more glories in th' etherial plain, The Sun first rises o'er the purpled main. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath (1839) 9/2 Oh England! England! wash thy purpled hands Of this foul sin. 1811Shaw Gen. Zool. VIII. 201 Purpled Creeper. 1889C. Edwardes Sardinia 231 A cluster of bold purpled peaks. |