ppl. a. [f. WAGE v. + -ED1.] Hired for wages; paid by wages. † Of soldiers: Mercenary (obs.).

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c. 1440.  Engl. Conq. Irel. (1896), 23. We come not into this londe as wagid men.

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c. 1449.  Pecock, Repr., II. ix. 193. So weel wagid bischopis.

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1462.  J. Paston, in P. Lett., II. 121. I may get leve for to send non of my wagyd men home ageyn.

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1535.  Coverdale, Jer. xlvi. 21. Hir wagied souldyers that be with her, are like fat calues.

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1579.  Moysie, Mem. Affairs Scot. (Bannatyne Club), 21. For the quhilk effect theare wer iije waidged men teane vp vpone the Kingis expensse.

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1579.  Tomson, Calvin’s Serm. Tim., 123/2. Let us mark … that we may be watchfull to fight against Sathan, and his waged men.

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1590.  Barrow & Greenwood, in Confer., 46. You stand a waged Minister vnder them.

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1617.  Moryson, Itin., II. 92. Florence mac Carty … refused to give his son for pledge, lest his waged souldiers should cast him out of his Countrey.

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1829.  Scott, Anne of G., xxxv. Wouldst thou aid the enemy of the lord under whose banner thou servest, against his waged soldiers?

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1870.  Daily News, 18 June. The continued want of employment among those who live by waged labour.

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  † b.  In bad sense: Bribed. Obs.

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1561.  T. Norton, Calvin’s Inst., III. 290. Ye leud babblers which do let out to hier the seruice of their waged tonge.

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