husbandedadj.

1567 T. Harding Reioindre to M. Iewels Replie against Masse f. 175 Defending the sacrilegious wedlocke of wiued Monkes, and husbanded Nonnes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) ii. i. 296 Thinke you, I am no stronger then my Sex Being so Father'd, and so Husbanded ? View more context for this quotation

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 61 The ill Wived, or ill Husbanded Wretches might here be comforted.

1796 D. Levi Diss. Prophecies Old Test. II. 2 The husbanded woman, denotes the Gentiles, who enjoy plenty and peace, in their own country.

1934 E. R. Groves & L. M. Brooks Readings in Family xv. 322 A sheltered and zealously husbanded woman will remark to a widowed friend, ‘So you're sailing Thursday.’

1995 Sewanee Rev. 103 605 Then there was the frequently husbanded assistant professor of whom an observer said, analytically, ‘She's a very moral person. She doesn't sleep around. She just marries around.’

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball iii. lix. 399 The husbanded Hoppe [Fr. Le domestique & cultiué] beareth his flowers or knoppes ful of scales.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. liv. 371 The husbanded or tame fig tree.

1636 D. Featley Clavis Mystica v. 56 Better husbanded land.

1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden lii. 102 In Gardens, Vineyards, Orchards, and other like husbanded grounds.

1844 N. Brit. Rev. Aug. 327 The carefully husbanded soil, occupied to the extreme edge of the narrow, well-kept hedges.

1989 S. G. Hall & J. Clutton-Brock 200 Years Brit. Farm Livestock ix. 121 (caption) These husbanded sheep were of Blackface type and were a relic of the early days of the breed in the Outer Hebrides.

2009 Ambio 38 24/1 Asian aquaculture..is dependent to a significant extent on alien species, as is the case for all the major food crops and husbanded terrestrial animals.

1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra iii. xv. 113 A better husbanded Strength might be truely more advantagious.

1837 G. V. Cox Jeanette Isabelle I. iv. 42 Watching the few sparks which gleamed at intervals from the carefully-husbanded fuel on the broken grate.

1859 H. Keddie Nut-brown Maids xviii. 407 Stopping at the first town..to fling away his husbanded money on bow and arrows.

1912 H. G. Wells Marriage iii. i. 357 The British investigator knows only too well the necessity for husbanded material and inexpensive substitutes.

2000 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. i. 22 One of the most husbanded resources in any [election] campaign is time.