[f. WORST v. + -ED.] Defeated.
1690. Child, Disc. Trade (1698), 198. The worsted party, by the fate of war, being deprived of their estates.
1780. S. J. Pratt, Emma Corbett (ed. 4), II. 52. The general on the worsted side affected to be dismayed.
1812. J. & H. Smith, Rej. Addr., i. (1873), 6. God bless the guards, though worsted Gallia scoff.
1869. Gladstone, Juventus Mundi, iii. 84. A place of refuge for fugitives, and for the worsted party expelled from other portions of Greece.
absol. 1855. Browning, Old Pict. Florence, xiv. To submit is the worsted’s duty.
