ppl. a. [f. FRUSTRATE v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.; disappointed, balked, etc.
1641. Shute, Sarah & Hagar (1649), 155. A frustrated name, is an hainous crime.
1661. Boyle, Style of Script. (1675), 48. Our By-acquists do richly recompense our frustrated (or rather unsucceeding) Pains.
1799. R. Warner, Walk West. Counties (1800), 143. The two ravens, whom I take to have been husband and wife, had, it seems, only retired behind an adjoining hedge when I interrupted them, and on my quitting the spot, with the characteristic boldness of the bird, returned to accomplish their frustrated purpose.
1828. Carlyle, Misc. (1857), I. 128. With a frustrated, nay terrified aspect.
1854. Emerson, Lett. & Soc. Aims, Comic, Wks. (Bohn), III. 204. The frustrated expectation … in the intellect is comedy.
1866. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, xxiv. Now he felt weary, frustrated and doubtful of his own temper.
1877. Daily News, 5 Nov., 5/2. There must surely be … a good many frustrated careers.
