Friended

ppl. a. [f. FRIEND sb. and v.] a. Having a friend; possessed of or supplied with friends. Usually qualified by an adv. as ill, well, etc., friended. b. In sense 3 of the vb.: Befriended (rare).

1530.  St. Papers Hen. VIII., VII. 243. Cassalis and other be so frendyd abought Yowr Grace, that they have avyses of al the tenour off yowr mooste honorable lettres writen hyther.

1568.  Tilney, Disc. Mariage, E iv. What auayleth it a man to haue his wife of excellent bewtie, great possessions, good parentage and wel friended, if therwithal she be shamelesse, prowd curst, and dissolute.

1580.  Sidney, Arcadia, III. (1605), 292. The curteous Amphialus would not let his Launce descend, but with a gallant grace, ran ouer the head of his therein friended enemie.

1581.  Mulcaster, Positions, iv. (1887), 19. Who is so ill freinded, as he hath not one, with whom to conferre.

1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks., 459. Although he was a man mightely friended, yet was he by a publicke decree banished into one of the Absyttides.

1834.  Scott, Redgauntlet, let. xi. ‘He was weel-freended, and at last he got the haill scraped thegither.’

1884.  Edna Lyall, We Two, xl. ‘I have been well “friended” all my life,’ he said once, looking round at the faces by his bedside.

Prov.

1538.  Starkey, England, I. iii. 86. For (as hyt ys commynly and truly also sayd) ‘materys be endyd as they be frendyd.’

1605.  Camden, Rem. (1637), 292. As a man is friended, so the law is ended.

1610.  Heywood, Gold. Age, I. i. Wks. 1874, III. 6.