weaponed

English

Etymology

From weapon +‎ -ed.

Adjective

weaponed (not comparable)

1. Armed with a weapon.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon’d; / Here is my journey's end, here is my butt, / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

   • 1819 December 20 (indicated as 1820), Walter Scott, chapter XL, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], →OCLC:

     […] Wamba, though so imperfectly weaponed, did not hesitate to rush in and assist the Black Knight to rise.

   • 1846, Thomas Francis Meagher, The Secession Speech on the “Peace Resolutions” and the Exclusion of the “Nation” Newspaper from the Repeal Association, 26 July, 1846, in Arthur Griffith, editor, Meagher of the Sword, Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1916, p. 36,^[1]

     The man that will listen to reason, let him be reasoned with; but it is the weaponed arm of the patriot that can alone avail against battalioned despotism.

   • 1890, William Morris, “Men Meet in the Market of Silver-stead”, in The Roots of the Mountains […], London: Reeves and Turner […], →OCLC, page 353:

     Then he cast his eyes on the road that entered the Market-stead from the north, and he saw thereon many men gathered; and he wotted not what they were; for though there were weapons amongst them, yet were they not all weaponed, as far as he could see.

   • 1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXXI: Hell Gate”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, pages 62–63:

     But across the entry barred / Straddled the revolted guard, / Weaponed and accoutred well / From the arsenals of hell; […]

2. (figuratively) Equipped, prepared.
   • 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], “The Preface”, in The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book I, page 2:

     [Y]et now, if any two be but once handed in the church and have tasted in any sort of the nuptial bed, let them find themselves never so mistaken in their dispositions through any error, concealment or misadventure, that through their different tempers, thoughts and constitutions they can neither be to one another a remedy against loneliness nor live in any union or contentment all their days, yet they shall, so they be but found suitably weaponed to the least possibility of sensual enjoyment, be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomeness and despair of all sociable delight in the ordinance which God established to that very end.

   • 1910 April, M. C. Klingelsmith, “The Continuity of Case Law”, in University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, number 7, page 404:

     Which will win? The man with only a superficial knowledge, going half way back, or the man with a knowledge that is thoroughly grounded in the sources of the law? But it will be said that the chances are that neither will ever have gone so far back, and thus one will be as well-weaponed as the other.

   • 1992, X. J. Kennedy, “Terse Elegy for J. V. Cunningham,” first published in Dark Horses: New Poems; reprinted in In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, p. 113,^[2]

     Though with a slash a Pomp’s gut he could slit,

     On his own work he worked his weaponed wit

     And penned with patient skill and lore immense

     Prodigious mind, keen ear, rare common sense,

     Only those words he could crush down no more

     Like matter pressured to a dwarf star’s core.

Derived terms

• unweaponed