beliedadj.n.

1590 W. Segar Bk. Honor & Armes i. vi. 8 So shal the Lie be certeine, and the belied forced, either to denie that he said, or stand to the iustification thereof.

1605 A. Munday tr. G. Affinati Dumbe Divine Speaker xiv. 162 (margin) Comparison of the belyed Susanna.

1642 T. Case Gods Waiting Thomason Tracts CXIII. No. 2. 99 He hath so graciously vindicated the reputation of his belyed slandered people.

1811 C. Redding Mount Edgcumbe 38 O who wou'd envy monarchs and their pride! The most dependant, and the most belied!

1845 Metropolitan Sept. 44 He fervently wished he could find out from whom they [sc. vile and scandalous fabrications] originated, and that person, whoever he was, should feel the wrath of a belied gentleman.

1874 C. A. Bartol Rising Faith iii. 70 No wrong of the belied or unappreciated but it shall care.

1889 ‘S. Tytler’ Duchess Frances II. xii. 199 The belied Irish infantry, burning to redeem their lost credit, had insisted on holding Limerick against King William.

2006 S. C. Seelig Autobiogr. & Gender in Early Mod. Lit. v. 124 Besides narrative patterns or generic motifs of fiction—the artful deceiver, the belied heroine, [etc.].

a1718 R. O'Flaherty Ogygia Vindicated (1775) vi. 85 This is but a glance at what these historians deliver concerning that Sham Line..of counterfeited names of monarchs, succeeding each other by a belied title of sons, brethren, nephews, kinsman, bastards, usurpers.

1844 Gentleman's Mag. Feb. 149/1 If perchance the King..shall have made mention, not of tithes, right of patronage, belied faith or perjury, but of chattels; [etc].

1908 G. E. Quin Boy-savers' Guide xxxi. 308 When an absence mark has been written during the exercises, the supposed delinquent may enter late; in which contingency the book custodian always feels himself inspired to change the belied ‘A’ into a tardily earned presence sign.

1985 A. J. Youngson Prince & Pretender iii. ix. 221 Charles's credibility must in any case have been low as a result of his often belied statements or even promises of English risings and a French invasion.

2008 M. P. Singh & R. Saxena Indian Polit. ii. 18 As it happened, this turned out to be a belied hope.