[f. JADE sb.1]
1. trans. To make a jade of (a horse); to exhaust or wear out by driving or working hard; to fatigue, weary, tire.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., III. i. 34. The nere-yet beaten Horse of Parthia, We haue iaded out o’ th’ Field.
1615. G. Sandys, Trav., 64. Horses, which are beautifull to the eye,… but quickly iaded if held to a good round trot.
1798. Miller, in Nicolas, Nelson’s Disp. (1846), VII. p. clvii. My people were also so extremely jaded, that as soon as they had hove our sheet anchor up they dropped under the capstan-bars, and were asleep in a moment in every sort of posture.
1837. J. E. Murray, Summer in Pyrenees, I. 305–6. Our horses were jaded—perfectly ‘done up.’
1857. Ruskin, Arrows of Chace (1880), I. 43. Contemplation of works of art without understanding them jades the faculties and enslaves the intelligence.
2. intr. To become tired or worn out; to grow dull or languid; to flag.
1620. Sanderson, 12 Serm. (1637), 261. As an horse that is good at hand, but naught at length, so is the Hypocrite; free and fiery for a spurt, but he jadeth and tyreth in a journey.
1737. Bracken, Farriery Impr. (1740), II. 27. He [a horse] will be apt to jade and tire in any Exercise.
1794. Burns, in Shairp, Burns, vii. (1879), 157. When I feel my Muse beginning to jade, I retire to the solitary fireside of my study.
1856. Capern, Poems (ed. 2), 154. We sit and pass the chilly night, The interest never jading.
† 3. trans. To befool; to jape. Obs.
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., II. v. 178. I do not now foole my selfe, to let imagination iade mee. Ibid. (1613), Hen. VIII., III. ii. 280. If we liue thus tamely To be thus Iaded by a peece of Scarlet, Farewell Nobilitie.
c. 1622. Fletcher, Woman’s Prize, I. iii. Wks. (1647), 102/2. On my wedding night am I thus jaded?
1679. Poor Robin’s Intelligence, in Sporting Mag., 61. Whosoever takes a horse upon his word is sure to be jaded.
† 4. intr. To play the jade: see JADE sb.1 2. Obs.
1641, 1766. [see JADING below].
Hence Jading vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1641. Pol. Ballads (Wilkins), I. 8. You grow poor, As any common whore That long hath been without her jading.
1670. G. H., Hist. Cardinals, I. I. 11. They … feel his goad at their sides, which keeps them both from tripping and jading.
1766. Fordyce, Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767), I. ii. 65. Lament too late the jading course thou hast run.
1845. Darwin, Voy. Nat., xxi. (1852), 501. The jading feeling of constant hurry.
