ppl. a. [f. prec. vb. + -ED.] Greeted with applause, loudly approved.
1628. Earle, Microcosm., lviii. One that justifies … [no] opinion out of the applauded way.
1647. Sir G. Buck, in Beaum. & Fl.’s. Wks., Pref. Shakespeare, Chapman, and applauded Ben.
1777. Hume, Ess. & Treat., I. 112. That … eloquence … of which they [the ancients] have left us such applauded models.
