ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. Subjected to, injured or impaired by, wounding; suffering from a wound or wounds: a. Of persons or animals.
1382. Wyclif, Ps. lxxxvii. 6. As woundid men slepende in sepulcris.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 7238. Mony woundit wegh fro his wepyn past.
1412–20. Lydg., Chron. Troy, III. 5410. Þere I lene þis dedly wounded man, Ful sore seke.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., III. ii. 254. There lay hee stretch’d along like a Wounded knight.
1672. Wiseman, Wounds, I. 74. All these wounded Patients.
1709. Pope, Ess. Crit., 357. A needless Alexandrine ends the song That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
1771. Junius Lett., liv. 283. It is the wounded soldier who deserves the reward.
1795–6. Wordsw., Borderers, V. 2152. The wounded deer retires to solitude.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, III. x. It stretch’d him on the plain, Beside the wounded Deloraine.
1846. Mrs. A. Marsh, Father Darcy, II. xi. 205. Like some poor wounded bird that steals into a thicket to die.
1872. Tennyson, Gareth & Lynette, 633. Kay near him groaning like a wounded bull.
b. Of parts of the body.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeau’s Fr. Chirurg., 5 b/2. We can not, without dilaniatione of the wounded parte, drawe forth the bullet.
1599. Shaks., Hen. V., IV. vi. 25. Ouer Suffolkes necke He threw his wounded arme.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, XII. 946. Fix’d on his wounded Face a Shaft he bore.
1769. E. Bancroft, Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana, 399. A cataplasm … applied to the wounded part, is the general remedy for venomous Bites.
1826. S. Cooper, First Lines Surg. (ed. 5), 101. A stratum of coagulated blood is found between the artery and its sheath, extending from a few inches below the wounded part.
c. fig. Impaired, attainted.
1692. Prior, Ode Imit. Hor., xiii. Tell ’em howe’re, the King can yet Forgive Their guilty Sloth,… And let their wounded Honour live.
2. absol. Those who have received wounds.
c. 1000. Rule of Chrodegang, l. Þam ʓemete þe gode læcas doð ymbe ʓewundode.
a. 1300. E. E. Psalter lxxxviii. 5. Als wounded, slepand þat are In throghes.
1672. Wiseman, Wounds, II. 67. From the defeat of the Scotch-army near Dunbar, there came many of the wounded to St. Johnstons.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, IV. xxiii. The yellow moon her lustre shed Upon the wounded and the dead.
1845. C. Sumner, True Grandeur Nations (1846), 15. A little cheese and a few vegetables are all that can be afforded to the sick and wounded.
1894. in W. W. Tomlinson, Songs & Ballads Sport (1895), 260. Round the goals the wounded sit.
3. fig. Deeply pained or grieved.
1390. Gower, Conf., III. 370. Sche hath my wounded herte enoignt.
1613. Shaks., Hen. VIII., II. ii. 75. The quiet of my wounded Conscience.
1647. Fuller (title), The Cause and Cure of a wounded Conscience.
1781. Cowper, Retirem., 341. No wounds like those a wounded spirit feels.
1848. Dickens, Dombey, xlix. The wounded heart of Florence.
1884. Flor. Marryat, Under Lilies, ii. The only person in the room who pours oil upon his wounded sensibility.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, lix. If there were anyone who could bring healing to her wounded soul.
4. Of inanimate objects: Marked or injured by cutting or piercing.
c. 1586. C’tess Pembroke, Ps. LV. v. Their speach … softer flowes then balme from wounded rind.
a. 1717. Parnell, Song, Poems (1737), 20. No more he … with a True-love Knot and Name Engraves a wounded Tree.
1718. Prior, Solomon, III. 229. Whom the cut Brass, or wounded Marble shows Victor o’er Life.
1801. Nelson, in Nicolas, Disp. (1845), IV. 384. The greatest quantity of rope has been made from the wounded cables of the prizes.
1812. Byron, Ch. Har., I. xlix. Wide scatter’d hoof-marks dint the wounded ground.
1846. Dickens, Battle of Life, i. For a long time, there were wounded trees upon the battle-ground.
1897. W. G. Smith, trans. Tubeuf’s Dis. Plants, 75. A healing tissue immediately begins to form on wounded surfaces.
† 5. = WOUNDY adv. Obs.
1753. A. Murphy, Gray’s-Inn Jrnl., No. 28, ¶ 2. A wounded sharp Boy he is.
