Also 8–9 lanthorn. [f. the sb.]
1. a. trans. To enclose as in a lantern. b. To furnish with a lantern; to light with a lantern.
1789. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., II. (1791), 112. Prometheus … lantern’d in his breast,… Bore the bright treasure to his Man of Clay.
1799. Southey, Nondescripts, iii. 24. Were it midnight, I should walk Self-lanthorn’d, saturate with sunbeams.
1832. Lamb, Lett. to Cary, in Talfourd, Final Mem., xviii. 174. I dreaded that Argus Portitor who doubtless lanterned me out, on that prodigious night.
1846. C. Maitland, Ch. Catacombs, 227. If a Christian woman marries a Pagan … she must go in and out of a gate laurelled and lanterned.
2. To put to death by hanging upon a lamp-post. (= F. lanterner.)
1815. Paris Chit-Chat (1816), II. 184. He was himself very near being lanterned in the streets of Paris by a group of the fauxbourg Saint Antoine.
1855. in Wright.
1860. in Worcester; and in later Dicts.
Hence Lanterned ppl. a., furnished with a lantern.
1800–24. Campbell, Grave of Suicide, 6. Nor will the lantern’d fisherman at eve Launch on that water.
