Pa. t. and pple. -eted. [f. prec. sb.; cf. to knight.] trans. To raise to the rank of baronet. (Mostly in passive.)
a. 1733. North, Exam., III. vii. ¶ 73. He had deserved to have been Baronetted.
1819. Southey, Lett. (1856), III. 116. I have long expected that Scott would be baronetted.
1872. M. Collins, Two Plunges, III. viii. 210. The unfortunate gentlemen whom I notice as being knighted or baroneted.
