[f. LAUREL sb.1] trans. To wreathe with laurel; to adorn with or as with laurel.
1631. H. Shirley, Mart. Souldier, V. in Bullen, O. Pl., I. 242. The good, how e’re trod under, Are Lawreld safe in thunder.
1663. Sir G. Mackenzie, Relig. Stoic, xvi. (1685), 143. Lawrel’d and rewarded.
1762–71. H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1785), V. 87. Sir Edward Nicholas, secretary of state; oval frame laurelled.
1831. Westm. Rev., Jan., 234. Our Caesar was bald, and we laurelled his defect.
1850. Neale, Med. Hymns (1867), 153. Laurelled with the stole victorious.
1867. F. M. Finch, Blue & Gray, in Atlantic Monthly, Sept., 370. They banish our anger forever When they laurel the graves of our dead!
b. To serve as a decoration for.
1821. Sporting Mag., VII. 192. Ever green be the garland that laurels thy fame.
