vapouredvaporedadj.
/ˈveɪpəd/, U.S. /ˈveɪpərd/ 1. Filled with vapour or moisture. rare.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > watery or gummy
waterya1398
watering1447
watered?c1450
vapoureda1542
waterish1561
weeping1566
gummy1580
liquid1598
swimming1703
gravy-eyed1785
a1542 T. Wyatt Psalm xxxii. Prol. 209 in Coll. Poems (1969) With vapord iyes he lokyth here and there.
1583 B. Melbancke Philotimus (new ed.) sig. Tiij v With driueling and with vapoured eies.
2. Formed of or from vapour. rare.
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the world > matter > gas > [adjective] > of the nature of fumes or vapour > formed of or from vapour
vapoured1563
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Induct. sig. R.iiii While from mine eyes The vapored teares downstilled here and there.
3. Affected with the vapours; suffering from nervous depression; low-spirited.Frequently in the 18th cent., esp. in predicative use.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > nervous depression > [adjective] > affected with
vapoured1670
vapourized1835
1670 J. Covel Diary in J. T. Bent Early Voy. Levant (1893) 110 Instead of dull, mopish, vapour'd women..we found..bright and airy ladyes.
1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. iv. 145 They were never vapour'd or low-spirited to any Degree.
1753 Ess. Celibacy 104 If a vapoured person is at one time convinced of the truth of any proposition,..at another he will adopt the opposite opinion.
1796 F. Burney Camilla III. vi. xi. 351 Sir Sedley..whispered: ‘I am horribly vapoured!’
1810 G. Crabbe Borough ix. 124 Her have I seen, pale, vapour'd through the Day, With crowded Parties at the midnight Play.
1824 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 15 398 Write when you can do nothing else, when you are vapoured, and then I shall be sure to hear the truth.
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