weaponed
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of weapon
Example Sentences
- "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; […]"
- "[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."
Etymology
From weapon + -ed.