ppl. a. Also 5–6 Sc. vencust, 6 Sc. vincust, vanquest, -queist; 6 vanquisshed, 7 vanquisht. [f. as prec.] Defeated, overcome, subdued.
1456. Sir G. Haye, Law Arms (S.T.S.), 272. The vencust man … suld pay to the vencusour his costis.
1513. Douglas, Æneid, I. ii. 27. Cariand to Italy Thair vincust hammald goddis and Ilion.
1589. Alex. Hume, Poems (S.T.S.), 54. The portrators of euerie vanquest towne, Or Cittadells [etc.].
1671. Milton, Samson, 281. The matchless Gideon in pursuit Of Madian and her vanquisht Kings.
1710. W. King, Heathen Gods & Heroes, x. (1722), 41. Those [arms] which Marcus Marcellus took from the vanquish’d Viridomarus.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., xxviii. (1787), III. 103. But the victors themselves were insensibly subdued by the arts of their vanquished rivals.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 44. This plea the King considered as the subterfuge of a vanquished disputant.
1884. Marshall’s Tennis Cuts, 266. Much more they steep The vanquished soul in sweet forgetfulness.
b. absol. The person or persons defeated, etc.
1555. Eden, Decades (Arb.), 50. Greater commoditie hath therof ensewed to the vanquisshed then the victourers.
1583. Stocker, Civ. Warres Lowe C., I. 38. That the victors would sacke the vanquisheds houses.
1651. Hobbes, Leviath., II. xx. 104. It is not … the Victory, that giveth the right of Dominion over the Vanquished [etc.].
1728. Eliza Heywood, trans. Mme. de Gomez’s Belle A. (1732), II. 67. Perhaps, if Tremouille had been the vanquish’d, he could not have behaved with the same Temper, as, being Conqueror, he did.
1810. Jane Porter, Scottish Chiefs, lxxxv. He bade that generous prince adieu, with the full belief of soon returning to find him the vanquished of Edward.
1887. Bowen, Æneid, II. 353. One hope only remains for the vanquished—hope to resign.
