ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED.]
1. Of persons: Having the face covered or hid with a visor or mask. Also fig., and of things.
c. 1380. Wyclif, Wks. (1880), 99. Þus in stede of cristis apostlis ben comen in viserid deuelis, to disceyuen men in good lif.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xvi. 4. There is no cause why theis visord Nicodemusses should coker themselves with this fond pretence.
1634. Milton, Comus, 698. Hast thou betrai’d my credulous innocence With visor’d falshood, and base forgery?
1827. Hallam, Const. Hist., iv. (1876), I. 205. Martin Mar-prelate, a vizored Knight of those lists, behind whose shield a host of sturdy puritans were supposed to fight.
1876. Meredith, Beauch. Career, III. xv. 260. There was the enemy hard in front, mailed, vizored, gauntleted.
b. In predicative use. (Cf. VISOR v.)
c. 1460. Wisdom, 727, in Macro Plays, 59. Here entrethe vj. Jorours … with hodis abowt her neckis, hattis of meyntenance þer-vp-on, vyseryde dyuersly.
a. 1470. Gregory, Chron., in Hist. Coll. Cit. Lond. (Camden), 78. The Schottys came in to Inglonde in to the parke of Stanhope. And ther they were vyseryde for knowynge.
1813. Hogg, Queen’s Wake, Concl. 325. The lofty brows of stern Clokmore Are visored with the moving cloud.
1830. Mrs. Bray, The Talba, xx. 170. Did you not come, you and your companion, visored and shrouded,… to waylay our path.
1883. Swinburne, Les Casquettes, iii. Like heads of the spirits of darkness visored That see not for ever, nor ever have heard.
2. Of helmets: Furnished with a vizor.
1834. Planché, Brit. Costume, 136. The improued visored bascinet and camail.
1862. H. Marryat, Year in Sweden, I. 271. A soldier in a vizored helmet.
1898. Archaeol. Jrnl., LV. 119. The head-piece, which is a visored salade.
