ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]
† 1. Of wine: Having a (specified) taste. Obs.
1533. Elyot, Cast. Helthe, III. xviii. (1541), 69. Moderate vse of small wynes, clere and well verdured, is herein very commendable.
1548. Udall, Erasmus Par. Luke, vi. 73. The sower verdured wyne of the olde supersticion.
2. Clad with verdure or vegetation; covered with grass.
a. 1718. T. Parnell, Gift of Poetry (1894), 193. Lonely pleasure leads To verdur’d banks, to paths adorn’d with flowers.
1798. W. Mavor, Brit. Tourists, V. 7. The terrific ascent of St. Catherine’s … is well verdured.
1839. Arnold, in Life & Corr. (1844), II. App. 398. There are two houses just built by the roadside, and opposite to them a little patch of ground just verdured.
1893. Scribner’s Mag., June, 734/3. A peculiar valley … made up of palisades and verdured plateaus.
