bloodedadj.
/ˈblʌdᵻd/, U.S. /ˈblədəd/ 1. Marked or covered with blood; bloodstained.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > stained or smeared with blood
redOE
bloodyOE
drearyOE
weta1300
bloodedc1300
bleedingc1305
forbled1387
gory?a1500
cruent1524
purpled1561
brued1563
beweltered1565
bloodied1566
beblubbered1582
purple1590
bloodstained1594
ensanguined1628
blood-bedabbled1629
cruentous1648
cruentate1661
begored1683
sanguined1700
bluggy1876
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) 13382 Þar me mihte i-sean manyfold sorewe,..blodede [c1275 Calig. blodie] feldes, falewede nebbes.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xi. l. 534 Bludyt was all his wapynnys and his weid.
1616 D. Tuvill Asylum Veneris sig. A6 Hence, backe to the stew, And in that cage thy blouded Pinions mew.
1685 C. Cleeve Songs Moses & Deborah 28 The blooded Rivers shall no more complain.
1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) ix. 239 The boys' beds were, some of them, all blooded with their fighting.
1851 W. Thornbury Lays & Legends 123 Weary of the slaughter, he stays his blooded hand.
1883 T. C. Irwin Versicles 89 And the leader of the foray, scorched and blooded, points his mace seaward.
1917 J. H. Curran Sorry Tale i. 135 She wiped her blooded hand upon the mantle.
1990 S. Morgan Homeboy x. 77 He hands the works to Rooski the way an officer might hand a blooded sword to his batman after a hard day in the killing field.
2. With modifying word or as the second element in compounds: having blood or a temperament of a specified kind.See also hot-blooded adj., red-blooded adj., warm-blooded adj., etc.
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1572 J. Sadler tr. Vegetius Foure Bks. Martiall Policye i. ij. f. 1v The people of the North..being more rashe and vnaduised, yet a great deale better blouded, are moste ready of all.
1675 T. Duffett Mock-tempest i. i. 2 The Whey-Blooded Rogue looks as if his heart were melted into his Breeches.
1742 T. Spateman School-boy's Mask iii. i. 28 So at Newmarket starts Some gen'rous-blooded Steed, outstrips the Wind, And leaves his fleetest Rivals far behind.
1763 C. Churchill Epist. to W. Hogarth 9 Thou equal-blooded judge.
1791 R. Cumberland Observer (ed. 2) V. cli. 275 Three such high-blooded bards as Linus, Orpheus, and Musæus..were enough to people all Greece with poets and musicians.
1862 Brit. Med. Jnl. 4 Oct. 359/1 The pallid countenance is replaced by the florid lips and cheeks of the healthy blooded subject.
1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold i. i. 8 I say not this, as being Half Norman-blooded.
1912 Amer. Jnl. Sociol. 18 270 Men should take a special care of all useful individuals, of all clean-blooded,..disease-resistant, long-living individuals.
1955 Proc. Royal Soc. 143 211 Both are broader and less sharp-edged than in pale-blooded animals.
1997 G. S. Helfman et al. Diversity of Fishes xvii. 308/2 These fishes are sometimes referred to as ‘white-blooded’ or ‘bloodless’ because their blood contains no hemoglobin.
2009 Spectator (Nexis) 22 Aug. 14 Cromwell was invariably portrayed as a humourless, amoral chancer—a black-blooded Mr Nasty to Sir Thomas More's saintly Mr Nice.
3. Chiefly North American. Of a domestic animal, esp. a horse: of good pedigree; spec. thoroughbred. Cf. blood n. 9b.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > horse defined by breed > [adjective] > thoroughbred or highly bred
blooded1776
blood-like1796
blood1824
line-bred1891
1776 S. J. Pratt Garrick's Looking-glass 37 Blooded horses left to play, Could scarce get either corn or hay.
1787 Scots Mag. Nov. 538/1 He leans mostly to that particular class known by the name of dray-horses, in preference to blooded ones.
1836 Southern Literary Messenger Feb. 161/1 I will get one of the blooded plough-horses, and he will make out as well as any.
1883 A. S. Hardy But yet Woman 118 He had in his stables..blooded animals of the purest race.
1887 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 164 Some improvement in stock-breeding, and considerable increase in the raising of blooded cattle, are to be generally noted.
1919 L. A. Fuertes et al. Bk. of Dogs 96/2 Blooded dogs are more intense in their make-up than the mongrel.
1924 E. Smith in B. C. Williams O. Henry Prize Stories (1925) 184 I'd..build up-to-date barns and pig houses, and stock it [sc. my place] with blooded cattle and hogs.
1955 H. Carter in Reader's Digest Aug. 28/2 Dad brought together a small blooded herd, fenced some of his land and began dipping his cattle to show what good stock and proper care could do.
1991 S. K. Penman Reckoning (1992) viii. 95 He..had spotted the man almost at once, mounted on a blooded palfry.
4. Of an animal: characterized by the possession of blood (as a category in a system of classification, esp. that of Aristotle); = bloody adj. 1b, sanguineous adj. 1b. Cf. bloodless adj. 1c. historical. Now rare.
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the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood > [adjective] > having
bloody1608
sanguineous1646
blooded1834
haematose1865
1834 W. Macgillivray Lives Eminent Zoologists 171 The most suitable primary division, he [sc. Ray] says is into blooded and bloodless, or, as we should say, red-blooded and white-blooded.
1911 J. McFarland Biol., Gen. & Med. 274 Linnæus thus departs from Aristotle by dispensing with the two primary divisions of Bloodless and Blooded animals.
1931 Bull. Mus. Fine Arts 29 91/2 Molluscs were devoid of blood and therefore lacked the heart and other vital organs essential to blooded animals.
1987 D. M. Balme in A. Gotthelf & J. G. Lennox Philos. Issues in Aristotle's Biol. iv. x.310 Animal is terrestrial or marine, and blooded or bloodless, and legged or legless.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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