ppl. a.; also 7–8 allarum’d, alarum’d. [f. ALARM v. + -ED.]
1. Called to arms, aroused, on the watch.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. i. 55. He saw my best alarum’d spirits, Bold in the quarrel’s right.
1667. Milton, P. L., IV. 986. On th’ other side Satan allarm’d Collecting all his might dilated stood.
1871. Daily News, 23 Jan., 6/4. The French are taking to these attacks seemingly…. The front line is standing ‘alarmed.’
2. Disturbed, excited by the prospect of danger.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah Sight, IV. vi. 100. The young man, late at night allarum’d out of his bed, with the noise.
1722. De Foe, Plague, 30. Deceivers fed their fears and kept them alarmed.
1827. Hood, Mids. Fairies, cx. And prompt fresh shifts in his alarum’d ears.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, v. (1874), 55. Her efforts implied alarmed modesty rather than maidenly coyness.
