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lated en · ADJ

Etymology

From late + -ed.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) Belated; too late; also, overtaken by night; delayed.
   • Come when my lated Sheep, at night return; / And crown the silent Hours, and stop the rosy Morn. 1697, Virgil, “The Seventh Pastoral. Or, Melibœus.”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, page 33:
   • Long ere the first loud trumpet’s note is heard, / Ne vacant space for lated wight is found: […] 1812, Lord Byron, “Canto I”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. A Romaunt, London: […] [F]or John Murray, […]; William Blackwood, Edinburgh; and John Cumming, Dublin; by Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, stanza 72:
   • Now spurs the lated traveller apace / To gain the timely inn […] 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, [Act III, scene iii]:
   • I am so lated in the world, that I / Have lost my way for ever: c. 1606–1607 (date written), 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, [Act III, scene xi]:

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