busiedadj.
/ˈbɪzɪd/, U.S. /ˈbɪzid/ Busily occupied or engaged; actively employed.For use as past participle see busy v. 1c.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > [adjective]
busylOE
sisela1400
importune1449
busied1576
resiant1583
pragmatical1590
doing1591
negotiated1604
practical1617
affairé1802
operative1816
occupied1897
1576 J. Hutten in T. Rogers Philos. Disc.: Anat. Minde sig. Av In company, or otherwise alone, my busied hed stil runnes vpon this thing.
1659 Land-Mark betwixt Prince & People 2 Our..too much busied forefathers.
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. vii. 55 That the busied Monk was tempted but with one Devil.
1781 G. Crabbe Library 28 Maturer Judgment calls My busied mind from tales and madrigals.
1841 Collegian May 277 Such inducements if the busied whisper of the Princeton circle can be credited, were of a short duration.
1919 J. Q. Adams South Sea Memories 31 The few years of his busied sojourn there [sc. in the South Seas].
2005 Buffalo (N.Y.) News (Nexis) 15 Apr. g15 For close to 90 minutes, Bittar plays not only Becca and Heidi, but also every other character in her busied life.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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