[f. FEE v. + -ED1.]
† 1. Bound to feudal service. Only in feed man: see FEEDMAN. Obs.
2. Paid by fees; hired; bribed; Sc. employed for wages.
1579. Fulke, Heskins’ Parl., 389. One of the feeid and fed seruants of ye Pope.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., I. v. 303.
| Vio. I am no feede poast, Lady; keepe your purse, | |
| My Master, not my selfe, lackes recompence. |
1602. Marston, Antonio’s Rev., IV. i. Wks. 1856, I. 117.
| When will the Duke hold fee’d intelligence, | |
| Keep wary observation in large pay, | |
| To dog a fool’s act? |
1628. Venner, Baths of Bathe (1650), 363. Such are his fee’d Agents.
1709. Lond. Gaz., No. 4562/4. [He] is Brother-in-Law to John Herstone of the Feed Gunners belonging to the Office of Ordnance.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., xxxviii. She’s no a fee’d servant.
1887. Pall Mall G., 2 March, 11/4. One of the fee’d speakers.
