ppl. a. [f. VAPOUR sb. or v.]
1. Filled with vapor or moisture. rare.
1536. Wyatt, Poems (1913), I. 216. With vapourd Iyes he lokyth here and there.
1583. Melbancke, Philotimus, T iij b. With driueling and with vapoured eies.
2. Formed of or from vapor. rare–1.
1559. Mirr. Mag. (1563), R iv. While from mine eyes The vapored teares downstilled here and there.
3. Affected with the vapours; suffering from nervous depression; low-spirited.
Freq. in the 18th cent., esp. in predicative use.
1670. Covel, in Early Voy. Levant (Hakluyt Soc.), 110. Instead of dull, mopish, vapour’d women … we found … bright and airy ladyes.
1733. Cheyne, Eng. Malady, II. iv. § 3 (1734), 145. They were never vapour’d or low-spirited to any Degree.
1753. Ess. Celibacy, 104. If a vapoured person is at one time convinced of the truth of any proposition,… at another he will adopt the opposite opinion.
1796. Mme. D’Arblay, Camilla, III. 351. Sir Sedley … whispered: ‘I am horribly vapoured!’
1810. Crabbe, Borough, ix. 137. Her have I seen, pale, vapour’d through the day, With crowded parties at the midnight play.
1824. Blackw. Mag., XV. 398. Write when you can do nothing else, when you are vapoured, and then I shall be sure to hear the truth.
transf. 1755. Monitor, No. 21. I. 179. It may … give you a little respite in a vapoured day; when … your head akes.
