ppl. a. Somewhat arch. [f. FAT v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.; now only, Fattened.

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  [To kill the fatted calf: proverbially used with reference to Luke xv.]

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1552.  Huloet, Fatted or dressed with fatte, adipatus, a. um.

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1580.  Baret, Alv., F 215. A fatted hogge, saginatus porcus.

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1611.  Bible, 1 Kings iv. 23. Beside Harts, and Roe-buckes, and fallow Deere, and fatted foule.

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1647.  Cowley, Mistress, The Welcome, i. Go, let the fatted Calf be kill’d.

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1660.  Hexham, Gemest landt, Dunged or Fatted land.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., IX. 49.

        The fatted sheep and sable bulls they slay,
And bowls flow round, and riot wastes they slay.

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1870.  Bryant, Iliad, I. II. 54.

                Agamemnon, king of men,
Offered a fatted ox of five years old.

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1875.  Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), III. 51, The Republic, Introduction. The humorous pictures of the lean dogs and the fatted sheep.

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