ppl. a. [f. ACCOMPLISH + -ED.)
1. Fulfilled, completed, finished, perfected.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 886/1. The little children of the king, of whom the eldest had not yet run eight yeares accomplished.
1726. Vanbrugh, Relapse, I. iii. (1780), 17. I have brought your Lordship as accomplish’d a suit of clothes as ever Peer of England trod the stage in.
1784. Cowper, Task, I. 88. Convenience next suggested elbow chairs, And luxury th’ accomplished sofa last.
1801. Southey, Thalaba, VII. xxix. IV. 263. With its rewards and blessings strews my path Thus for the accomplish’d service.
1882. Bill of Lading. In Witness whereof the Master or Agent of the said Ship hath signed Bills of Lading, all of this Tenor and Date, one of which being accomplished the others to be void.
2. Complete, perfect; esp. in acquirements, or as the result of training.
1475. Caxton, Jason, 32. The best accomplished and the most speciall [ladies] fyxed their loue in him.
1581. Sidney, Def. Poesie (1622), 524. That Realme neuer brought forth a more accomplished iudgement, more firmely builded vpon vertue.
1611. Shaks., Cymb., I. v. 103. Your Italy containes none so accomplish’d a courtier to conuince the honour of my mistris.
1786. Cowper, Lett., 19 Feb. (Wks. 1876), 227. An accomplished person moves gracefully without thinking of it.
1813. Jane Austen, Pride & Prej. (1833), 33. No one can be really esteemed accomplished, who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with.
1874. Blackie, Self-Culture, 25. Accomplished speaking, like marching or dancing, is an art.
† 3. Completely versed (in), fully informed. Obs.
1603. Florio, Montaigne (1634), 497. Finding him so faire, so young and strong, she, who was perfectly accomplished in all his qualities, aduised him to lye with her.
