ppl. a. arch. [app. for earlier a-hungred (an- for a- before vowel: see AN- pref. 5):—of-hungred:—OE. of-hyngrod (cf. a-thirst, OE. of-þyrsted, a-down, OE. of-dúne): see A-HUNGERED, OF-HUNGERED. Later variants were EN-HUNGERED, IN-HUNGERED; the sequence being apparently of-, a-, an-, en-, in-.]
1. Overcome with hunger, hungry.
c. 1300. K. Alis., 1229. The folk and the poraile weoren anhungred.
1377. Langl., P. Pl., B. X. 59 (Oriel MS.). Bothe anhungred [v.r. afyngerd, a-hungred] and a-þrist.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., VI. ix. (1495), 195. The nouryce fedyth the childe whan it is an hungred.
1526. Tindale, Matt. xii. 1. His disciples wer anhongred. 1557 Genev., anhongred. 1611 & 1881 Revised, an hungred.
2. fig. Eagerly desirous, longing.
1848. Lowell, Poet. Wks., 1879, 398. Anhungered for some joy untried.
1881. Swinburne, Mary Stuart, IV. i. My people seems in sooth Hot and anhungered on this trail of hers.
