ppl. a. [f. CONSUME v.1 + -ED.]
1. Used up, burnt up, wasted, spent, eaten up.
1601. Shaks., All’s Well, V. iii. 38. Not one word more of the consumed time.
1885. Law Times, LXXIX. 130/1. Vestries consumed with gluttony and personal animosities.
† 2. Wasted with disease; suffering from consumption. Obs.
1460–70. Bk. Quintessence (1890), 17. A man þat is almoost al consumed and waastid in al his body.
1572. J. Jones, Bathes of Bath, IV. 27 b. Yong men, leane, consumed … must eschue the bathes.
1655. C. Bennet, Moufet’s Health’s Improv. (1746), 259. They recover sick and consumed Persons.
† 3. = ‘Confounded,’ as an expression of execration or dislike. b. as adv. = CONSUMEDLY. Obs.
1707. Farquhar, Beaux’ Strat., II. ii. The Roads are consumed deep.
1756. W. Toldervy, Hist. Two Orphans, II. 128. Those justices are consumed arbitrary folks.
1779. Sylph, I. 19. A consumed long string of past transactions, that bore me to death.
[I have met with expressions like ‘a consumed fool.’ F. Hall.]
