[f. WARBLE v.1 + -ED1.] In senses of the verb.

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  1.  Melodiously sung or sounded. Also, celebrated in song.

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1634.  Milton, Comus, 854. If she be right invok’t in warbled Song.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., I. 420. Hush’d in attention to the warbled song.

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1742.  Collins, Ode to Simplicity, 21. By old Cephisus deep, Who spreads his wavy sweep In warbl’d wanderings round thy cool retreat.

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1794.  Coleridge, Sonn., La Fayette. As when far off the warbled strains are heard.

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  † 2.  Of a musical string (see WARBLE v.1 5 a).

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a. 1645.  Milton, Arcades, 87. As I … touch the warbled string.

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