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starred, ppl. a.|stɑːd|
Forms: 3 stirred, 4 stared, 4–5 sterred, 5 sterrid, -yd, 6 stered, Sc. sterrit, 6– starred.
[f. star n.1 and v. + -ed.]
1. Of the heavens, the sky, etc.: Studded with stars, starry.
a1225St. Marher. 22 Þe gast anan riht steh up in to þe stirrede bur bliðe to heouene. 1390Gower Conf. III. 375 Enclosid in a sterred sky. c1485Digby Myst. i. 397 From the sterrid hevyn, lord, thu list come down. 1513Douglas æneis i. v. 55 The sterrit sky. 1610Bolton Elem. Armories 150 Azure being the colour of the starred heauen. 1794–6Coleridge Relig. Musings 19 Nor the starred azure, nor the sovran sun. 1820Keats Hyperion i. 118 Upon all space: space starr'd, and lorn of light. 1883Meredith Lucifer in Starlight 1 On a starred night, Prince Lucifer uprose.
2. a. Marked with the representation or figure of a star; studded or adorned with star-like figures. Of a horse or cow: Having a star on the forehead (see star n.1 9 b).
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1506 Nov is alle þis guere geten glotounes to serue; Stad in a ryche stal & stared ful bryȝtȝ. c1380Sir Ferumb. 3987 Hastelich aȝen on ys stede he wond, þe sterrede he takeþ on ys hond, & leteþ hem boþe renne. 1570Bury Wills (Camden) 156 One blacke stered heckforde of the age of two yeres. 1681Grew Musæum iii. §i. v. 305 The Starred-Stone. Astroites. So called, for that being tabulated, or polish'd to a plain, it appears adorned with little Stars. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 355/1 A Starred Ray,..the fins and body is adorned with painted Stars. 1831Griffith tr. Cuvier IX. Syn. 4 Starred Tortoise, Testudo Stellata. 1854A. Adams etc. Man. Nat. Hist. 356 Starred Corals (Caryophylliidæ).
†b. starred chamber: see Star-chamber.
†c. Epithet of an order of monks or friars.
Cf. Cotgr. Estoillins, an Order of Friers, that weare starres on the breasts of their gownes.
1537Orig. & Sprynge of Sectes 33 The order of Starred monkes... They weare an honest blacke garment with a starre sewed theron, wherby they maye be knowen. Ibid. Starred freres. 1563–83Foxe A. & M. 154/2 Some Flagellants..: some starred Monkes.
d. Decorated with the star of an order.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey ii. xii, Gartered peers, and starred ambassadors. 1856Lever Martins of Cro' M. xxiv. 263 Your starred and cordoned agitator of the Bourse. 1900E. Wallace Writ in Barracks 113 O the starred and gartered Levee!
e. Marked or distinguished with an asterisk. spec., in order to indicate some special category or merit.
1893Daily News 20 Dec. 5/7 Does the right hon. gentleman expect candidates to count 1,169 starred voters? 1914Hansard Lords 24 Nov. 459 My original arrangement with Lord Kitchener was that a starred man should neither be solicited for recruitment nor accepted for the Army if he offered himself. 1927,1937[see nap n.5 2 c]. 1940Hansard Lords 6 Aug. 148 As far as I remember, the starred question was introduced at the instance of the late Lord Curzon about twenty years ago, and the object was to enable noble Lords to put down questions which they would wish to see mentioned in the House, rather than dealt with by a written reply, but upon which no debate should take place. 1964F. White West of Rhone xxii. 233, I stopped at a starred hotel... It deserved its star, for it was very good. 1970R. Lowell Notebk. 104 Four stone inkfish, thrice stepped on, lifting the spout—Not starred in any guidebook. 1971Guardian 19 July 8/2 Margaret Drabble..whom he much admires for..her starred first. 1974R. Quirk Linguist & Eng. Lang. xi. 158 American English items [in a dictionary] are prefixed by a warning asterisk (an unhappy emblem when we consider what a starred form means in linguistics). 1976N. Roberts Face of France xix. 185 The starred items on the menu.
f. Of glass or ice: see quot. and star v. 5. Similarly of a radiating ‘splash’ of liquid, and spec. of a shattered vehicle windscreen of splinterproof glass.
1849Craig, Starred,..cracked in the form of a star, as a starred bottle, or pane of glass. 1896J. Conrad Outcast of the Islands iv. iii, A single big drop of rain..struck loudly the dry ground between them in a starred splash. 1960B.S.I. News Mar. 8/2 A windscreen of laminated glass may crack under impact but it will hold together, though ‘starred’, and remain in one place except in the most violent of collisions. 1979R. Perry Bishop's Pawn ix. 153, I continued driving blind, unable to see through the starred windscreen.
3. a. Star-shaped; arranged in the form of a star; stellate. Chiefly Bot.
1725Bradley's Family Dict. s.v. Narcissus, The most common in France are..the crennell'd, the yellow, the starr'd wild [etc.]. 1821S. F. Gray Brit. Plants I. 88 Hairs..Starred, stellati. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 368 The first starred yellow blossoms of the spring. 1874M. E. Herbert tr. Hübner's Ramble ii. iv. (1878) 324 Maples with their fine starred leaves.
†b. starred wheel = star-wheel (b), star n.1 20.
1696Mandey & Moxon Mech. Powers ix. i. (1699) 176 A Starred Wheel is that whose Circumference is furnished with three sided Prismes having each side equal.
4. Influenced by the stars; born under a (lucky or unlucky) star. Only with defining adv., or in parasynthetic comb. with adj. (as ill-starred).
1611Shakes. Wint. T. iii. ii. 100 My third comfort (Star'd most vnluckily). 1786Burns To Mountain-Daisy vii, Such is the fate of simple Bard, On Life's rough ocean luckless starr'd! 1824Hood Ode on Clapham Academy 67 Some brightly starr'd,—some evil born. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 434 O nations, happy starred.
5. Of a person: Made into a star or constellation; elevated to the region of the stars. (Cf. star v. 2.)
1632Milton Penseroso 19 That Starr'd Ethiope Queen [Cassiopeia]. 1832Lytton Eugene Aram v. vi, The confession..of a starred soul that had wandered from how proud an orbit. 1898Meredith Odes Fr. Hist. 79 In the ranks of the starred, she is one.
6. Placed in or allocated to a star. nonce-use.
1742Young Nt. Th. ix. 777 Ye Starr'd, and Planeted, Inhabitants! |