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weaponed

weaponed adjective: armed with a weapon. Also the simple past and past participle of weapon.

Adjective

weaponed (not comparable)

  1. 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.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...
    • […] Wamba, though so imperfectly weaponed, did not hesitate to rush in and assist the Black Knight to rise.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...
  2. (figuratively) Equipped, prepared.
    • [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...1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], “The Preface”, in The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, book I, page 2
    • 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...1910 April, M. C. Klingelsmith, “The Continuity of Case Law”, in University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, number 7, page 404

Also used as

weaponed is also the simple past and past participle of weapon.

Examples of weaponed in a sentence

  • But across the entry barred / Straddled the revolted guard, / Weaponed and accoutred well / From the arsenals of hell; […]1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXXI: Hell Gate”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., →OCLC, pages 62–63:
  • 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.1910 April, M. C. Klingelsmith, “The Continuity of Case Law”, in University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register, number 7...

Origin of weaponed

From weapon + -ed.

Words formed from weaponed

Questions about weaponed

What does weaponed mean?
Weaponed means armed with a weapon.
How do you use weaponed in a sentence?
But across the entry barred / Straddled the revolted guard, / Weaponed and accoutred well / From the arsenals of hell; […]
What part of speech is weaponed?
Weaponed is an adjective.

Words near weaponed in the dictionary

  1. weapon of mass disruption
  2. weapon-salve
  3. weapon-salves
  4. weapon-schaw
  5. weapon-schaws
  6. weaponed
  7. weaponeer
  8. weaponeered
  9. weaponeering
  10. weaponeers
  11. weaponfire

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