ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Calumniated, falsified, proved false.
1610. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., in Farr, S. P., 59. A painted face, belied with vermeyl store.
1848. Kingsley, Saint’s Trag., Proem 28. Fathers, long belied, and long forsaken.
1853. Maurice, Proph. & Kings, xix. 339. But the words lived on, established, not belied, by that apparent confutation.
