[f. prec. sb.] trans. To mark with, or distinguish by, a badge.
1380. Wyclif, Sel. Wks. (1871), III. 60. Þus þei ben baggid wiþ signes of ipocrysie.
1599. [see BADGED].
1737. Swift, Wks. (1761), III. 336. Badging the original poor of every parish, who begged in the streets.
1880. Daily Tel., 28 Oct., 5/3. A hyæna at large in London, were he even numbered and badged by the Local Board of Works, would be a very troublesome animal.
