foughtenadj.
/ˈfɔːt(ə)n/ 1. foughten field n. one in which there is or has been fighting; a battle-field. Obsolete exc. poetic.
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society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun]
fieldeOE
place?c1225
fletc1275
champ of battlec1300
champany?a1400
o laundon?a1400
palaestrac1425
battle-stead1487
fighting-stead1487
open fielda1500
spear-field1508
joining-place1513
camp1525
foughten field1569
battleground1588
Aceldama1607
champian?1611
field of honour1611
champaign1614
standing ground1662
fighting-field1676
battlefield1715
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 424 Was taken prisoner..in a pitched and foughten fielde.
1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads 78 With all the horrour of a foughten field.
a1821 J. Keats Otho i. iii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 131 A thousand foughten fields.
1866 J. G. Edgar Runnymede ix. 53 You will doubtless live to see..many foughten fields.
2. Of persons:† a. That has fought. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > warrior > [adjective] > that has fought
well-fought1598
foughten1631
1631 G. Chapman Warres of Pompey & Caesar in Plays (1873) III. 166 So many staid and dreadfull soldiers?..long foughten?
b. Scottish. = forfoughten adj.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > by or of battle, fighting, or war
forfoughtenc1275
weary of-foughtc1330
foughten1786
war-weary1895
1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxv, in Poems 18 Are we sae foughten and harrass'd.
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