ensigned
ensigned is the simple past and past participle of ensign.
Meaning of ensign
Verb
ensign (third-person singular simple present ensigns, present participle ensigning, simple past and past participle ensigned)
- To designate as by an ensign.
- HENRY but ioyn’d the Roses, that ensign’d / Particular families, but this hath ioyn’d / The Rose and Thistle,1610, Ben Jonson, The Speeches at Prince Henry's Barriers, archived from the original on 18 Nov 2018
- To distinguish by a mark or ornament.
- To distinguish by an ornament, especially by a crown.
- Any charge which has a crown immediately above or upon it, is said to be ensigned.
Questions about ensigned
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- Ensigned is the simple past and past participle of ensign.
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