Lated

ppl. a. poet. [as if f. *late vb. (f. LATE a.¹) + -ED¹.] = BELATED.

a. 1592.  Greene, Orpharion, Wks. (Grosart), XII. 73. Cvpid abroade was lated in the night.

1592.  Warner, Alb. Eng., VIII. xli. (1612), 198. If, perhaps, he lated weare.

1605.  Shaks., Macb., III. iii. 6. Now spurs the lated traveller apace. Ibid., Ant. & Cl., III. xi. 3. I am so lated in the world, that I Haue lost my way for euer.

1697.  Dryden, Virg. Past., VII. 56. Come when my lated Sheep at Night return.

1812.  Byron, Ch. Har., I. lxxii. Ne vacant space for lated wight is found.

1813.  Scott, Rokeby, II. x. The lated peasant shunned the dell. Ibid. (1829), Doom Devorgoil, II. ii. Some hedge-inn, the haunt of lated drunkards.

1867.  G. Macdonald, Poems, 67. High sails the lated crow.

1898.  T. Hardy, Wessex Poems, 80. Albeit therein—as lated tongues bespoke—Brunswick’s high heart was drained.