ppl. a. [f. FRAME v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 176/1. Framyd, dolatus.
1496. in C. Welch, Tower Bridge (1894), 83. [The carriage of loads of ‘framed timber’ figures in the accounts of 1496.]
1566. in Peacock, Eng. Ch. Furniture, 65. A Rood loft whearof is made a framde table.
1578. Timme, Caluine on Gen., 91. The principal point of wisdom is, framed sobriety to the obedience of God.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, II. i. 21 In Ordinances, or framed battels, alwayes the Ensignes do march in one large or long ranke iointly.
1605. Bacon, Adv. Learn., I. 3. Though I cannot positively or affirmatively advise your Majesty, or propound unto you framed particulars, yet I may excite your princely cogitations to visit the excellent treasure of your own mind, and thence to extract particulars for this purpose agreeable to your magnanimity and wisdom.
1639. in Virginia Mag. of Hist. & Biog. (1895), III. 30. Others have undertaken to build framed howses to beautifye the place.
1719. De Foe, Crusoe, II. i. To carry a framed sloop on board the ship.
1816. Jameson, Charac. Min., 207. Framed or squared fluor-spar (chaux fluatée encadrée).
1874. Micklethwaite, Modern Parish Churches, 319. Framed pictures require to be placed where they may be seen.
