ppl. a. [f. SOUL sb. or v.]

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  † 1.  ? Conferred upon the soul. Obs.–1

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1387–8.  T. Usk, Test. Love, III. i. (Skeat), l. 15. Who-so can wel understande is shapen to be saved in souled blisse.

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  2.  Endowed with a soul. rare–1.

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c. 1400.  Apol. Loll., 10. Þe maker of man kynd takyng a soulid body of þe virgyn.

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  3.  With qualifying terms: Endowed with a soul of a specified kind.

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  See also great-, high-, large-, mean-, NARROW-SOULED.

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1602.  Marston, Antonio’s Rev., IV. ii. G 3 b. He that’s a villaine, or but meanely sowl’d, Must still conuerse, and cling to routes of fooles.

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1667.  Dryden, Maiden Queen, I. iii. Matchless in virtue, And largely souled where’er her bounty gives.

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1781.  Mme. D’Arblay, Diary, Aug. Dr. Johnson … is as great a souled man as a bodied one.

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1828.  Lytton, Pelham, II. xii. 120. You whey-faced,… sleepy-souled Arismanes of bad spirits. Ibid., xxvii. 298. I have my refuge and my comforter in the golden souled and dreaming Plato.

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1894.  Mrs. Dyan, Man’s Keeping (1899), 193. What would they tell that faithful-souled Afghan chief.

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