a. [f. SPECTRE sb. 1.] Filled with spectres; converted into a spectre; resembling a spectre.

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1791.  Wolcot (P. Pindar), Lousiad, III. Wks. 1794, I. 269. Amidst the spectred solitude of sleep.

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1803.  T. G. Fessenden (‘C. Caustic’), Poet. Petit. agst. Galvanising Trumpery, I. (ed. 2), 2.

        Already doom’d to hard quill-driving,
’Gainst spectred poverty still striving.

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1809.  E. S. Barrett, Setting Sun, I. 69. That specter’d ell, Grim death hath seiz’d our father your viceroy.

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