Starred

ppl. a. Forms: 3 stirred, 4 stared, 4–5 sterred, 5 sterrid, -yd, 6 stered, Sc. sterrit, 6– starred. [f. STAR sb.¹ and v. + -ED.]

  1.  Of the heavens, the sky, etc.: Studded with stars, starry.

a. 1225.  St. Marher., 22. Þe gast anan riht steh up in to þe stirrede bur bliðe to heouene.

1390.  Gower, Conf., III. 375. Enclosid in a sterred sky.

c. 1485.  Digby Myst., I. 397. From the sterrid hevyn, lord, thu list come down.

1513.  Douglas, Æneis, I. v. 55. The sterrit sky.

1610.  Bolton, Elem. Armories, 150. Azure being the colour of the starred heauen.

1794–6.  Coleridge, Relig. Musings, 19. Nor the starred azure, nor the sovran sun.

1820.  Keats, Hyperion, I. 118. Upon all space: space starr’d, and lorn of light.

1883.  Meredith, Lucifer in Starlight, 1. On a starred night, Prince Lucifer uprose.

  2.  Marked with the representation or figure of a star; studded or adorned with star-like figures. Of a horse or cow: Having a star on the forehead (see STAR sb.¹ 9 b).

13[?].  E. E. Allit. P., B. 1506. Nov is alle þis guere geten glotounes to serue; Stad in a ryche stal & stared ful bryȝtȝ.

c. 1380.  Sir Ferumb., 3987. Hastelich aȝen on ys stede he wond, þe sterrede he takeþ on ys hond, & leteþ hem boþe renne.

1570.  Bury Wills (Camden), 156. One blacke stered heckforde of the age of two yeres.

1681.  Grew, Musæum, III. § i. v. 305. The Starred-Stone. Astroites. So called, for that being tabulated, or polish’d to a plain, it appears adorned with little Stars.

1688.  R. Holme, Armoury, II. 355/1. A Starred Ray,… the fins and body is adorned with painted Stars.

1831.  Griffith, trans. Cuvier, IX. Syn. 4. Starred Tortoise, Testudo Stellata.

1854.  A. Adams, etc., Man. Nat. Hist., 356. Starred Corals (Caryophylliidæ).

  † b.  Starred Chamber: see STAR-CHAMBER.

  † c.  Epithet of an order of monks or friars.

  Cf. Cotgr. Estoillins, an Order of Friers, that weare starres on the breasts of their gownes.

1537.  Orig. & Sprynge of Sectes, 33. The order of Starred monkes…. They weare an honest blacke garment with a starre sewed theron, wherby they maye be knowen. Ibid. Starred freres.

1563–83.  Foxe, A. & M., 154/2. Some Flagellants…: some starred Monkes.

  d.  Decorated with the star of an order.

1826.  Disraeli, Viv. Grey, II. xii. Gartered peers, and starred ambassadors.

1856.  Lever, Martins of Cro’ M., xxiv. 263. Your starred and cordoned agitator of the Bourse.

1900.  E. Wallace, Writ in Barracks, 113. O the starred and gartered Levee!

  e.  Marked or distinguished with an asterisk.

1893.  Daily News, 20 Dec., 5/7. Does the right hon. gentleman expect candidates to count 1,169 starred voters?

  f.  Of glass or ice: see quot. and STAR v. 5. Similarly of a radiating ‘splash’ of liquid.

1849.  Craig, Starred,… cracked in the form of a star, as a starred bottle, or pane of glass.

1896.  J. Conrad, Outcast of the Islands, IV. iii. 230. A single big drop of rain … struck loudly the dry ground between them in a starred splash.

  3.  Star-shaped; arranged in the form of a star; stellate. Chiefly Bot.

1725.  Bradley’s Family Dict., s.v. Narcissus, The most common in France are … the crennell’d, the yellow, the starr’d wild [etc.].

1821.  S. F. Gray, Brit. Plants, I. 88. Hairs … Starred, stellati.

1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., III. IV. 368. The first starred yellow blossoms of the spring.

1874.  Lady Herbert, trans. Hübner’s Ramble, II. iv. (1878), 324. Maples with their fine starred leaves.

  † b.  Starred wheel = star-wheel (b), STAR sb.¹ 20.

1696.  Mandey & Moxon, Mech. Powers, IX. i. (1699), 176. A Starred Wheel is that whose Circumference is furnished with three sided Prismes having each side equal.

  4.  Influenced by the stars; born under a (lucky or unlucky) star. Only with defining adv., or in parasynthetic comb. with adj. (as ILL-STARRED).

1611.  Shaks., Wint. T., III. ii. 100. My third comfort (Star’d most vnluckily).

1786.  Burns, To Mountain-Daisy, vii. Such is the fate of simple Bard, On Life’s rough ocean luckless starr’d!

1824.  Hood, Ode on Clapham Academy, 67. Some brightly starr’d,—some evil born.

1855.  Singleton, Virgil, II. 434. O nations, happy starred.

  5.  Of a person: Made into a star or constellation; elevated to the region of the stars. (Cf. STAR v. 2.)

1632.  Milton, Penseroso, 19. That Starr’d Ethiope Queen [Cassiopeia].

1832.  Lytton, Eugene Aram, V. vi. The confession … of a starred soul that had wandered from how proud an orbit.

1898.  Meredith, Odes Fr. Hist., 79. In the ranks of the starred, she is one.

  6.  Placed in or allocated to a star. nonce-use.

1742.  Young, Nt. Th., IX. 777. Ye Starr’d, and Planeted, Inhabitants!