Obs. [Strong pa. pple. of LOAD v.]
1. = HEAVY-LADEN 2. Also absol.
1542–5. Brinklow, Lament. (1874), 82. Come vnto me all ye that laboure and are loden (meaninge with sinne).
1653. Binning, Serm. (1845), 427. This we preach unto you, that until you be wearied and loaden, you will not cast your burden on Jesus.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac. (1737), II. III. i. 386. Large Creatures; who … go led and loaden thro those dry and barren Places!
2. Loaded, charged, weighted, laden.
1600. Surflet, Country Farme, V. xviii. 694. You must haue speciall regard to sowe them [Beanes] all about the fifteenth daie after the change of the moone, bicause that in so doing, they will bee the better loaden.
1619. Fletcher & Massinger, False One, IV. iii. Pitty me, Pitty a loaden man.
1639. Mass. Col. Rec. (1853), I. 266. A loaden horse carrying a sack of corne.
1704. Addison, Italy (1733), 105. The Seas … Shove the loaden Vessels into Port.
1725. Pope, Odyss., IX. 274. The loaden shelves afford us full repast.
a. 1774. Goldsm., trans. Scarron’s Com. Romance (1775), I. 289. Certain peasants who attended a loaden cart.
1792. Charlotte Smith, Desmond, I. 213. Those majestic and deeply-loaden clouds.
