ppl. a. [f. STITCH v.1 + -ED1.] In senses of the verb: esp. a. Embroidered, worked with ornamental stitches.

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1583.  Rates Custom Ho., E vj b. Stiched cloth to woork on the elle, xx. d.

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1598.  Marston, Sco. Villanie, III. xi. 229. A sticht Taffata cloake.

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1624.  J. Taylor (Water P.), Praise Cl. Linen, Wks. (1630), II. 168/1. Ruffes … the plaine, the stich’d, the lac’d, and shagge.

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1713.  in Halliwell, Acc. Collect. Bills, etc. (1852), 37. Paid for a box and cord to send ye stiched gowne and coate 00 01 02.

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1886.  W. J. Tucker, E. Europe, 428. Table-cloths were adorned with stitched scrolls.

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  b.  Of a book or pamphlet: Fastened with stitches; in early use = SEWED ppl. a.; in present use, fastened together by a thread or wire which passes through all the sections at once.

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1658.  Wood, Life (O.H.S.), I. 264. To Godwin for stitched bookes, 4s.

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a. 1697.  Aubrey, Lives (1898), I. 131. He wrote a stich’t treatise of mines.

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1716.  M. Davies, Athen. Brit., I. Pref. 66. ’Tis not much to be question’d but of all Modern Pamphlets,… the English sticht Sermons to be the most Edifying, Useful and Instructive.

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1716.  Pope, etc., Further Acc. E. Curll, ¶ 1. The author of a three-penny stitched book.

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