ppl. a. [f. STORE v. + -ED1.]
1. Laid up in store; kept in reserve as a store or stock; accumulated, hoarded.
1581. A. Hall, Iliad, V. 80. Sith fate no children did him leaue He forced was his stored wealth to strangers to bequeaue.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. iv. 164. All the stor’d Vengeances of Heauen fall On her ingratefull top.
1879. W. Cory, Lett. & Jrnls. (1897), 449. The stored water on which one’s gardening depends.
1881. S. P. Thompson, in Nature, 2 June, 106/2. A dozen times as much stored energy.
1885. Athenæum, 28 Nov., 698/1. His three volumes are the stored harvest of a long … life.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., IV. 609. Only a small portion of the stored fat in the body comes directly from that consumed with the food.
b. with up, away.
1859. Lever, Dav. Dunn, lxxv. 658. You … know little of the stored-up happiness your very name has afforded me for many a day.
1890. L. C. Miall, Obj. Lessons fr. Nature, II. xv. 196. You have only to dry … the plant to get back a good deal of its stored-up energy.
1900. Everybody’s Mag., III. 581/1. Others came to offer certain stored-away preserves.
2. Stocked, furnished or supplied with a store. Also with qualifying adv.
1612. Bacon, Ess., Greatness Kingd. (Arb.), 472. Walled Towns, stored Arcenals and Armories.
1835. J. Duncan, Beetles (Nat. Libr.), 81. A well-stored cabinet of Coleoptera.
1865. Lea, in Mrs. Lecky, Mem. Lecky (1909), 45. Your richly stored pages show how much there is to be learned when apparently insignificant facts are brought together from the most varied sources and made to reflect light upon each other.
1882. Bain, James Mill, vi. 277. Men of stored and cultivated minds.
