veiledadj.

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. f. 77 In the meane tyme haue they boosted their own most fylthye whores, their Nonnes and veyled systers, for sanctyfyed vyrgynes and the pure spowses of Christ.

a1593 C. Marlowe tr. Lucan First Bk. (1600) i. 597 The Nunnes And their vaild Matron, who alone might view Mineruas statue.

1614 J. Davies in W. Browne Shepheards Pipe sig. G3^v Than vp (sad swaine) pull fro thy vailed cheeke Hur prop, thy palme.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) i. i. 27 The Element it selfe..Shall not behold her face at ample view: But like a Cloystresse she will vailed walke. View more context for this quotation

a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 212 Our veyl'd Dames Commit the Warre of White and Damaske In their nicely gawded Cheekes.

1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 799/1 As he lay in his Bed, St Edith appeared to him in the habite of a veiled Nunne, with a Crosier in her hand.

1700 T. Brown et al. tr. P. Scarron Comical Romance i. ix. 25 in tr. P. Scarron Whole Comical Wks. She..suspected at first the Lady of the Ball, to be the vail'd Person that appear'd last to him.

1720 Magna Britannia II. 1235/2 Elizabeth Barton..was a veiled Nun of this Monastery, which consisted of a Lady-Prioress, and six veiled Nuns, whose Habit was a black Coat, Cloak, Cowl and Veil.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 70 She was veil'd till she came into the Room.

1820 P. B. Shelley Prometheus Unbound ii. iv. 81 What veiled form sits on that ebon throne?

1837 J. J. Slocum Confirmation M. Monk's Disclosures concerning Hotel Dieu Nunnery ii. ii. 136 Mrs. Hahn..testifies..that she saw her some time after this, while she was yet a novice: and that she saw her a veiled nun.

1851 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters (ed. 5) I. 423 Those veiled vestals and prancing amazons..will all be forgotten.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. iii. 25 No one recognised the veiled figure.

1951 D. Thomas Let. 12 Apr. (1987) 796 Women veiled, or unveiled ugly, or beautiful and entirely inaccessible, or hungry.

2015 Sunday Tel. (Nexis) 13 Dec. 20 None of that mattered to the veiled women in black being ferried to vote by male relations.

1776 W. Withering Bot. Arrangem. Veg. Great Brit. II. 775 (margin) Veiled. Calyptrata.

1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. at Calyptra In this sense Euonymus is said to be calyptred, calyptrate or veiled; having a loose covering over the pericarp.

1800 J. Hull Elements Bot. I. 94 Veiled, velatus, when the covering is on all sides free and detached from the ovary.

1860 M. J. Berkeley Outl. Brit. Fungol. 235 Pileus pulvinate,..at length rugulose or rivulose; margin veiled.

1910 Mycologia 2 3 It [sc. the sawdust stinkhorn] may be readily distinguished from the veiled stinkhorn by the absence of a conspicuous, reticulate veil.

1947 Amer. Midland Naturalist 37 21 Stipe usually thick and fleshy,..in no stage and under no circumstances ever viscid or veiled.

2011 R. D. Rogers Fungal Pharmacy i. 314/2 The related netted or veiled stinkhorn..is used in China for treating dysentery.

1792 C. Palmer It is, & it is not Novel I. xiv. 222 The bride was obliged to go to dinner without her veiled bonnet.

1817 D. Lysons & S. Lysons Magna Britannia V. 231 The effigies of a man in plate-armour..and of his lady in a long gown and veiled head-dress.

1860 Dublin Univ. Mag. Sept. 340/2 The veiled hat was bent down and the face averted.

1922 F. H. Burnett Robin v. 44 Slim young war-widows were to be seen in black dresses and veiled..hats.

1970 Y. Guiladi tr. A. Chouraqui Man Alone xx. 142 He wore a gray uniform, brown gloves and a veiled helmet.

2016 Express Online (Nexis) 16 Mar. The Princess sported a vast array of styles from pill box and saucer hats to veiled fascinators.

1586 J. Ferne Blazon of Gentrie i. 56 From a vayled and couered speech, did deprompt the hidden secrets, and witty sentences of Philosophy.

1612 T. Taylor Αρχὴν Ἁπάντων: Comm. Epist. Paul to Titus i. 1 The vailed knowledge of the law.

1674 R. Boyle Excellency Theol. i. i. 49 A close and critical account of the more vailed and pregnant parts of Scripture.

1763 Gen. Hist. World ii. 12 Of which dubious sort of style the Scripture often makes use, in explaining natural things; sometimes in accommodating itself to the capacities of the people, and at other times to the real, but more veiled truth.

1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. II. 119 Returning the inquirer's thoughts and veiled recollections to himself, as answers to his queries.

1878 J. P. Hopps Rel. & Moral Lect. xiii. 42 On the one hand, all the masks will drop off; and, on the other hand, all the veiled goodness will appear.

1902 Athenæum 17 May 637/2 (advt.) Mr. F. C. Hodgson traces with scholarly care and minuteness the veiled beginnings of Venetian power.

1993 J. Mitchell Not by Reason Alone (1996) iv. 124 A history that is partially obscured and veiled.

2015 Bradford Tel. & Argus (Nexis) 13 May The veiled world of art dealing and high end auctions is alien to me.

1651 W. Davenant Gondibert iii. iv. xix. 296 For Love is a distress, and would be hid Like Monarchs griefs, by which they bashful grow... And Gondibert with dying Eies did grieve At her vail'd love (a wound he cannot heal).

1784 W. Hayley Marcella I. i, in Plays of Three Acts 110 Curse his proud and thinly-veil'd contempt!

1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) ii. x. 105 There is a wide difference between a veiled promise and a veiled threatening.

1888 Polit. Sci. Q. 3 8 Dr. Spahr rightly treats the great majority of existing (national) taxes on expenditure, reaching, as they do, articles of ordinary consumption, as a veiled or disguised tax on the wages of labor.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn I. v. 35 The scarcely veiled sneer which marked his tone of voice.

1910 Jrnl. Pedagogy 20 36 Servant girls..indulge in this kind of conversation, making veiled references to secrets most of the time.

1934 Stevens Point (Wisconsin) Daily Jrnl. 8 May (City ed.) 1/7 His statement..carried a veiled warning that if anything happened to him because of his imprisonment the government would be held responsible.

1991 Jrnl. Sci. Stud. Relig. 30 342/2 The thinly veiled contempt for studies that are essentially oriented to social or historical analysis.

2015 Guardian (Nexis) 22 June It was hard to know whether the comments..were a joke or a veiled threat.

1602 A. Munday tr. 3rd Pt. Palmerin of Eng. lxxxi. f. 253^v The cheerefull morning, hauing chaced away sadde melanchollie night, and ye veyled eyes of mortalls, enricht with the golden Sunnes vp-rising.

1662 W. W. Britannia Iterum Beata 5 Sol fell by: through the chrystal venters in, Where slumbring lay the thoughtless Queen, within; And boldly dar'd to reach her veiled eyes.

1821 P. B. Shelley Adonais ii. 7 With veiled eyes, 'Mid listening Echoes, in her Paradise She sate.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Prince Athanase in Posthumous Poems (1824) 109 'Tis the shadow of a dream Which the veiled eye of memory never saw.

1886 Amer. Jrnl. Archaeol. & Hist. Fine Arts 2 508 The hair tossed back, the thick neck, the small veiled eyes.

1914 N. Eastwood Let. 13 Mar. in E. Smyth Beecham & Pharaoh (1935) 152 You have always..approached with a very unusual directness subjects and points of view that other people keep rather under sealed lips and veiled eyes.

1947 ‘P. Wentworth’ Wicked Uncle ii. 8 A tall man of a loose, rangy build, with a sallow skin, receding hair, and dark, rather veiled eyes.

2008 E. Gottlieb Becoming my Mother's Daughter 2 That oil painting of the teenaged Eliza,..her high colours in contrast to the brooding veiled eyes.

1819 Sel. Hymns Bethesda Chapel 113 The voice of love and mercy Sounds aloud from Calvary; Rending rocks the words attesting, Shaking earth and veiled sky.

1862 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 249/2 There was nothing to be seen except the veiled stars above.

1880 C. J. Hamilton Flynns of Flynnville 212 She must only trudge on amidst the vapour-veiled fields.

1907 J. C. Andersen Maori Life in Ao-tea xvii. 248 A waterfall plunging from tree-veiled ledge to tree-veiled abyss.

1966 Monumenta Nipponica 21 175 The veiled moon..appears over the horizon as though suspended in the surrounding dark.

1992 Times 25 Sept. (Life & Times section) 3/6 A white-sailed yacht and distant, green-veiled mountain.

2012 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 27 Apr. b7 The fog-veiled island has been mainly a place of pilgrimage ever since.

1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island vi. lxv. 81 Why do we..With curious labour, dimme and vailed sight, Prie in the nature of this King and Queen?

1688 I. C. Elegy on Death of N. D. Doctor of Physick in J. Barker Poet. Recreations sig. Bb 4 With blubber'd Eyes my veiled sight grows dim.

1894 F. H. Cliffe Persian Vizier 82 The sapphire blaze Which Milton's veilèd sight before Beheld with inner vision.

1930 Kokomo (Indiana) Tribune 24 May 1/6 Vain people may dread the approach of age saying that it is the time of faltering tread, stooped back, veiled eyesight and wrinkled faces.

1950 L. J. Meduna Oneirophrenia iii. 59 The sensation of hazy, foggy vision is described by the patients in many different ways. They refer to it sometimes as ‘veiled’ vision.

2009 Daily Mail (Nexis) 13 Oct. I shall be going back for regular checks to let the experts keep an eye on my vision, and if I get a recurrence of manic flashes, floaters or more veiled vision I'll go back.

1816 Morning Chron. 21 Nov. He possesses what the Italians denominate a veiled voice; it is not quite clear.

1884 Grove's Dict. Music IV. 235 Veiled Voice... A voice is said to be veiled when it is not clear, but sounding as if it passed through some interposed medium.

1894 B. Garcia tr. M. Garcia Hints on Singing (ed. 2) 9 The medium notes are weaker and more veiled than the corresponding chest notes.

1931 Amer. Mercury Feb. 242/1 This modulatory passage Weingartner sets in the veiled tones of the soft trombones, trumpets, bassoons, and clarinets, with a touch of oboe color.

1969 Life 28 Mar. 18 A fine singer who can shout above a five-piece band or who can croon in a woman's veiled voice.

1980 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 June d11 Though her tone is not sensuous, she made it seem so by embodying the languid intent of Verlaine's poetry in delicate phrasing and veiled timbres.

2004 J. Spitzer & N. Zaslaw Birth of Orchestra ix. 312 ‘German style’ flutes with smaller embouchure holes and no metal, which produced a more veiled sound.

1856 Jrnl. Photogr. Soc. 22 Sept. 131/2 By a veiled image is meant one which is not quite visible, where the metal is not completely bare in the parts corresponding to the deepest shadows.

1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 477 Isochromatic and other very sensitive plates requiring the greatest possible protection during development, to avoid veiled negatives.

1956 B. R. Halpern Color Correction for Offset Lithogr. xv. 175 Wrong density contrast range on the separations may result in production of soft dots and veiled areas between them.

2010 ‘Ctein’ Digital Restoration Start to Finish (ed. 2) i. 12 It's likely that the photograph won't be really badly faded, but the colors will be poorly saturated, with dull and veiled highlights.