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▪ I. seared, ppl. a.|sɪəd|
[f. sear v. + -ed1.]
1. Dried up, parched, withered.
1538Elyot Dict., Ramale, a seryd or deed bowghe. 1599Thynne Animadv. (1875) 48 Of freshe coolor..whiche hathe no sered nor withered cooloor in his leafes. 1791Cowper Iliad xiii. 687 Part [of the weapon] within his disk remain'd Like a seer'd stake. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. ii, The seared leaves only flew the faster for all this. 1886W. J. Tucker E. Europe 298 We reached the outskirts of the village, surrounded by rich pasture-lands and dense copses of thicket, now seared and bare.
2. Cauterized. Also fig., of the conscience, heart, etc., rendered incapable of feeling.
1684J. Sharp Disc. Conscience 7 If..we..talk of..a Tender Conscience or a Seared Conscience or the like. 1862Calverley Verses & Transl. (1894) 53 Seared is, of course my heart—but unsubdued Is, and shall be, my appetite for food. 1903A. Smellie Men of Covenant vi. 90 Perhaps even this man, seared as his conscience was, felt a tremor of awe.
▪ II. seared
obs. form of cered ppl. a. |