lated
English
Etymology
late + -ed
Adjective
lated (comparative more lated, superlative most lated)
- (obsolete) Belated; too late; delayed, overtaken by night.
- c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:
- Now spurs the lated traveller apace
To gain the timely inn […]
- c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene xi]:
- I am so lated in the world, that I
Have lost my way for ever:
- 1697, John Dryden (translator), The Works of Virgil Containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis, London: Jacob Tonson, The Seventh Pastoral, p. 33,
- Come when my lated Sheep, at night return;
- And crown the silent Hours, and stop the rosy Morn.
- 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “Canto 1”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, stanza 72:
- Long ere the first loud trumpet’s note is heard,
Ne vacant space for lated wight is found:
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References
- lated in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- Adlet, DELTA, Delta, adlet, atled, dalet, dealt, delta, taled