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Definition of weaponed

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (not-comparable)Armed with a weapon.
    “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.”
    “[…] 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, 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.”
    “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.”
    “But across the entry barred / Straddled the revolted guard, / Weaponed and accoutred well / From the arsenals of hell; […]”
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adj

  1. (not-comparable)Armed with a weapon.
    “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.”
    “[…] 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, 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.”
    “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.”
    “But across the entry barred / Straddled the revolted guard, / Weaponed and accoutred well / From the arsenals of hell; […]”
  2. (figuratively, not-comparable)Equipped, prepared.
    “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.”

verb

  1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of weapon

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Etymology

From weapon + -ed.

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