Wished

ppl. a. [f. WISH v. + -ED¹.]

  1.  That is the object of a wish; desired, longed-for. Now rare exc. as in b.

15[?].  Fickle Estate of Our Vncertayn Lyfe (MS. Rawl. poet. 112, lf. 10 b). What if a day or A moneth or a yeare Crowne thy delightes with a thowsand wisht contentinges?

1577.  Grange, Golden Aphrod., etc. P iv b. So friendly Venus is, so friendly Cupid was, That fancie brought hir soone, vnto my wisshed passe.

1583.  Melbancke, Philotimus, Cc iij. My wished frend, and welcomde guest.

1602.  Marston, Antonio’s Rev., III. ii. We touch the shore Of wisht revenge.

1667.  Milton, P. L., I. 208. While Night Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes.

1748.  Richardson, Clarissa, VII. lxii. 221. At length … every thing is in the wished train.

1811.  W. R. Spencer, Poems, 17. Oh! why so late thy wish’d return?

1812.  Cary, Dante, Parad., XXIII. 4. The bird … With her sweet brood; impatient to descry Their wished looks.

1906.  Charlotte Mansfield, Girl & Gods, xxvii. Psyche … held out her hand in token of a wished farewell.

  b.  with for: cf. WISH v. 2 a.

1586.  T. B., La Primaud. Fr. Acad., I. 1. The wished-for newes of peace.

1725.  Ramsay, Gentle Sheph., III. iv. When wished-for pleasures rise like morning light.

1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., I. xlv. Yet is she free—the spoiler’s wish’d-for prey!

1888.  Burgon, Lives 12 Gd. Men, I. i. 32. [They] declared their inability to render America the wished for assistance.

  2.  Entertained as a wish: cf. WISH v. 2 c. rare.

1580.  Lyly, Euphues (Arb.), 467. Hauing thus made ech other priuie to our wished desires.