[f. STORY sb.1 and v.1 + -ED. Cf. med.L. historiātus, OF. (h)istorié.]
1. Ornamented with scenes from history or legend by means of sculpture, painting, needlework or other art; also, inscribed with a legend or memorial record.
1481. Caxton, Myrr., I. v. 25. Clerkis … that haue the precyous bookes richely lymned storyed and wel adoubed.
1624. Wotton, Archit., II. 99. As for other Storied Workes vpon Walles, I doubt our Clime bee too yeelding and moist, for such Garnishment. Ibid., 101. Marking in certaine Storied Sculptures, of oulde time, how precisely the parts and Lines of the Figures … doe meete.
1632. Milton, Penseroso, 159. And storied Windows richly dight, Casting a dimm religious light.
1750. Gray, Elegy, 41. Can storied urn or animated bust Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
1792. S. Rogers, Pleas. Mem., I. 53. The storied arras … With old achievement charms the wildered sight.
1808. Scott, Marmion, V. Introd. 185. As the ancient art could stain Achievements on the storied pane.
1862. Thrupp, Anglo-Saxon Home, 227. They occasionally wrought the storied mantles worn by kings at their coronation, on which mythological and historical subjects were delineated.
1876. Swinburne, Erechtheus, 1727. One fair chaplet … To hang for ever from thy storied shrine.
2. Celebrated or recorded in history or story.
1725. Pope, Odyss., IV. 440. Each known disaster of the man disclose,… Recite them! nor in erring pity fear To wound with storied grief the filial ear.
1746. Francis, trans. Horace, Art of Poetry, 387. They scorn’d to take from Greece the storied Theme, And dar’d to sing their own domestic Fame.
1832. Tennyson, ‘Love thou thy Land,’ i. Love thou thy land, with love far-brought from out the storied Past, and used Within the Present.
1877. Mrs. Oliphant, Makers of Flor., vii. 183. The many historical places … which attract the spectator in the storied city of Florence.
1903. Athenæum, 1 Aug., 151/1. To set out upon as adventurous and entertaining a career as that of any of his storied forbears in Baghdad.
