ppl. a. [f. ALLOY v. + -ED.]
1. Mixed with a baser metal, so as to be reduced in quality.
1691. Locke, Money, Wks. 1727, II. 40. Fine Silver is usually dearer than so much Silver alloy’d.
1831. Lardner, Hydrost., viii. 164. Alloyed metals, or adulterated liquids.
2. Hence fig. Debased, deteriorated, through the admixture of something injurious.
1827. Carlyle, Richter, Misc., I. 15. This man, alloyed with imperfections as he may be, is consistent.
1869. Lecky, Europ. Mor., I. xi. 227. Pleasures so fleeting and so alloyed.
3. Combined so as to form a metallic compound.
1822. Imison, Sc. & Art, II. 118. They always contain native iron alloyed with nickel.
1860. Ure, Dict. Arts, I. 93. Copper alloyed with zinc forms brass.
