† textedadj.
Obsolete.
1. Skilled or learned in ‘texts’ or authors. rare.(In this sense texted wel (v.r. text wel) appears in one group of Chaucer manuscripts, where another has textuel. The latter was probably the original reading, but the change in some manuscripts perhaps implies that texted was known.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > [adjective] > skilled in letters
book-lereda1250
lettereda1375
bookeda1393
texted14..
letterlya1425
literate?a1475
book-learnedc1475
clerklya1529
book-read1591
bookwise1593
read1594
letter-learned1771
book-formed1798
14.. Chaucer's Manciple's T. (Harl.) 131 But for I am a man not texted wel [so Corp.; Lansd. texed, Petworth text; 3 MSS. textuel] I wil not telle of textes neuer a del.
14.. Chaucer's Manciple's T. 212 But as I sayd, I am nought tixted wel [Corp., Petworth, Lansd. text; 3 MSS. textuel, -eel, tixt-].
2. Written in text-hand or text-letters; engrossed.
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > large
gross1488
texted1620
majuscular1864
1620 T. Dekker Dreame sig. A2 They beg nothing, the Texted Past-bord talkes all; and if nothing be giuen, nothing is spoken.
1650–66 G. Wharton Poems in Wks. (1683) 340 To write Custodes in a Texted-hand.
1695 London Gaz. No. 3125/4 Texted Indentures for Attorneys.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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