ppl. a. [Archaic form of pa. pple. of FIGHT v.: see prec.]
1. Foughten field: one in which there is or has been fighting; a battle-field. Obs. exc. poet.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 424. Was taken prisoner … in a pitched and foughten fielde.
1676. Hobbes, Iliad, 78.
| And on her Shoulder hung her frightful Shield, | |
| Wherin Strife, Force, Flight, Chase were figured, | |
| With all the Horrour of a foughten field. |
1819. Keats, Otho, I. iii.
| No, not a thousand foughten fields could sponge | |
| Those days paternal from my memory, | |
| Though now upon my head he heaps disgrace. |
1870. Edgar, Runnymede, 53. You will doubtless live to see, and survive, many foughten fields if you are discreet.
2. Of persons: † a. That has fought (obs.). b. Sc. FORFOUGHTEN.
1631. Chapman, Cæsar & Pompey, Plays, 1873, III. 166.
| To halfe so many staid, and dreadfull souldiers? | |
| Long train’d, long foughten? able, nimble, perfect | |
| To turne and winde aduantage euery way? |
1785. Burns, Twa Dogs, 173.
| Are we sae foughten an’ harass’d | |
| For gear to gang that gate at last! |
