a. rare. [f. VIRTUE sb.] Endued with virtue or efficacy.
1609. Heywood, Brit. Troy, IV. xi. He discends unto his knees Taking the vertued chaplet from his head.
1635. Quarles, Embl., V. iv. 21. But has the virtu’d Steele a pow’r to move? Or can the untouch’d Needle point aright?
1897. J. Primmer, J. Primmer in Rome (1903), 110. The old woman … rubs her hand on the toes and passes the virtued hand across the child’s forehead.
