ppl. a. [f. FREQUENT v. + -ED1.] † a. Crowded (obs.). † b. Commonly practised or used (obs.). c. Of a place: Often resorted to.
1578. J. Banister, The Historie of Man, V. 81. The substaunce of the splene consisteth of thicke and much blacke concreted bloud, like the more Solid kynde of sponge, and lighter pumeise stone, packed together with the frequented Fibres and filamentes of vessels.
1586. W. Webbe, Eng. Poetrie (Arb.), 56. The most vsuall and frequented kind of our English Poetry hath alwayes runne vpon, and to this day is obserued in such equall number of syllables, and likenes of wordes, that in all places one verse either immediatly, or by mutuall interposition, may be aunswerable to an other both in proportion of length, and ending of lynes in the same Letters.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 36. Patales (a most famous and frequented port).
1654. Earl Orrery, Parthen. (1676), 1. He invited him into a less frequented walk than that he had chosen.
1666. J. Sergeant, Lett. Thanks, 80–1. Founded on naturall Knowledges imprinted by frequented Sensations in such a manner as is impossible to bee blotted out in one single Testifier or part of Tradition.
a. 1677. Barrow, Serm. (1686), III. 399. The Goodness of God is a frequented Theme.
1773. Observ. State Poor, 34. Ghastly countenances … haunting our most frequented avenues.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, I. xx. Happily it was the least frequented of the bridges, and there were scarcely any passengers on it at this moment.
1875. Bedford, Sailor’s Pocket-bk., iv. (ed. 2), 118. In the frequented parts of the North Atlantic, the limits of field-ice in March extend from Newfoundland to the Southward as far as 42° N. latitude, and to the Eastward of the meridian of 44° W.
