ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb. Also in comb., as famished-looking adj.

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a. 1450.  Knt. de la Tour (1868), 28. It was not wel done that the dogges were fedde and made so fatte, and the pore pepille so lene and famisshed for hunger.

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1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., I. ii. 7.

        Otherwhiles, the famisht English, like pale Ghosts,
Faintly besiege vs one houre in a moneth.

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a. 1682.  Sir T. Browne, Tracts, i. 59. That passage of Job, wherein he complains that poor and half famished fellows despised him, is of greater difficulty.

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1781.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., III. 167. The famished host of Radagaisus was in its turn besieged.

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1828.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. (1863), 467. A long, lean, famished-looking boy.

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1869.  Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), III. xii. 138. Some rode on famished horses.

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  fig.  1633.  G. Herbert, Temple, Longing, i.

                With sick & famisht eyes …
To thee my sighs, my tears ascend.

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1877.  Bryant, Poems, The Third of November, 1861, vi. Howling, like a wolf, flies the famished northern blast.

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