ppl. a. Forms: 4–5 sucred; 4–7 sugred (5 -id, -yd, -et, sugird, -urd, sugurt, sugeryd, 6 -ed, Sc. sug(g)urit, sugorit, 7 suger’d, sugg’red, sugr’d, sug’red), 6– sugared (7–8 sugar’d); Sc. 7 succred, 8–9 suckered. [f. SUGAR sb. or v. + -ED. Cf. med.L. zucarata, sugurata (aqua), F. sucré.]
1. Containing or impregnated with sugar; sweetened with sugar.
c. 1420. Liber Cocorum (1862), 53. Ȝet sugurt soppes I nyl forȝete.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, Ep. Ded. Ambrosia, a sugred and confect kinde of Wine.
1576. Gosson, Spec. Hum., in Sch. Abuse (Arb.), 77. The tender floure … Whose sugred sap sweet smelling sauours yeeldes.
1577. Harrison, England, III. i. in Holinshed. Marchepaine, sugred bread [ed. 1587 sugerbread], gingerbreade.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 726. Wine Sugred inebriateth lesse, than Wine Pure.
1633. P. Fletcher, Pisc. Eclogues, VII. xxxvii. No sugred made confection.
1685. Hedges, Diary (Hakl. Soc.), I. 209. Sugared Biskett.
1763. Mills, Pract. Husb., IV. 368. Phials half filled with sugared water.
1886. D. C. Murray, First Pers. Sing., ii. He asked for a glass of sugared water and a match.
1889. J. M. Duncan, Clin. Lect. Dis. Wom., xxii. (ed. 4), 190. By the sugared urine irritating the skin.
b. Sugared pumpkin: = sugar-pumpkin (SUGAR sb. 5 c).
[1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, 252. To make cucumbers or pompions sugred, you must steepe the seed in water that is well sweetned with sugar or honie,… and so sowe them.]
1884. De Candolle’s Orig. Cultivated Pl., 254. The sugared pumpkin, called Brazilian.
c. Resembling (that of) sugar; sugary. rare.
1725. Fam. Dict., s.v. Pears, A very muskish sugared Taste.
d. Sugar-coated; candied, ‘crystallized.’
1855. Dickens, Househ. Words, XII. 133/2. Bonbons made of sugared nuts and almonds.
1874. Black, Pr. Thule, xiv. 228. Her pockets stuffed with packages of sugared fruits.
1878. C. Gibbon, For the King, iii. Pills and words come to the same effect in the end, whether sugared or no.
1892. Garrett, Encycl. Pract. Cookery, I. 15/1. Sugared Almonds.
e. Smeared with a mixture of sugar, beer, etc., for the purpose of catching moths.
1887. Cassell’s Dict., s.v. Sugaring, The collector visits the sugared trees after dark with a bull’s-eye lantern.
2. fig. Full of sweetness; honeyed, luscious, delicious. a. With lit. language retained.
1426. Lydg., De Guil. Pilgr., 14287. Flaterye, The wych, with hys sugryd galle, Euery vertu doth appalle.
1523. Skelton, Garl. Laurel, 73. Sith he hath tastid of the sugred pocioun Of Elyconis well.
1576. Gascoigne, Kenelworth, Wks. 1910, II. 108. The Sugred baite oft hides the harmefull hookes.
1629. Z. Boyd, Last Battel, 950 (Jam.). All fleshlie pleasures are both vain and vile…. Beware of such succred poison.
1663. S. Patrick, Parab. Pilgr., xv. (1687), 132. These sugared drops do love most to stay in the solitary places.
b. Of actions, states, etc.: freq. having an attractive outward appearance, alluring.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, II. 384. So lat youre daunger sucred [v.r. sugred] ben a lyte.
1569. in Burnet, Hist. Ref., Rec. (1681), II. II. III. xii. 369. Her cunning and sugred entertainment of all Men that come to her.
a. 1586. Sidney, Apol. Poetry (Arb.), 28. His sugred inuention of that picture of loue.
c. 1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon, vii. 68. Whose face, shining with many a sugar’d smile.
1607. Shaks., Timon, IV. iii. 259. Thou would’st haue … followed The Sugred game before thee.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, Glance, i. I felt a sugred strange delight.
1651. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, II. xix. 248. If we retain … any one beloved lust, any painted devil, any sugar’d temptation.
1890. Spectator, 18 Oct., 530/1 Davies was afterwards more successful in his offers of sugared law.
† c. Of sound, melody, harmony: Dulcet, mellifluous. Obs.
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 11. To practyse withe sugrid melody.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xlvi. 13. A nychtingall, with suggurit notis new.
1580. Gifford, Posie of Gilloflowers, Wks. (Grosart), 93. Her sugred descant.
1648. J. Beaumont, Psyche, XI. ccxvii. What Ear could now Disrelish such a sugar’d Noise as this!
† d. Of the tongue, mouth, lips (occas. of persons), with reference to eloquence or tone. Obs.
c. 1440. Lydg., Amor vincit omnia, v. (MS. Ashm. 59). Þe greke Omerus wt his sugred mouþe.
1508. Dunbar, Gold. Targe, 263. Your sugurit lippis and tongis aureate.
1560. Rolland, Seven Sages, 63. O Pantillas with thy sweit suggurit toung.
1573. L. Lloyd, Pilgr. Princes (1586), 24 b. Demosthenes that sugred Orator.
1635. Swan, Spec. Mundi, vii. § 3 (1643), 348. The harmlesse Choristers … do then begin to tune again their sugred throats.
e. Of words, speech, eloquence. (The commonest use.)
1387–8. T. Usk, Test. Love, I. iv. (Skeat), l. 34. She … gan deliciously me comforte with sugred wordes.
c. 1440. Lydg., St. Albon (1534), A ij. Sugred deties of Tullius Cicero. Ibid. (c. 1450), Secrees, 220. Thorugh his sugryd Enspyred Elloquence.
1539. Taverner, Gard. Wysed., I. 30. His wordes were more sugred than salted, more dilectable then profytable.
1591. Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., III. iii. 18. Faire perswasions, mixt with sugred words.
1633. G. Herbert, Temple, Rose, i. This world of sugred lies.
1664. H. More, Antid. Idolatry, x. 140. The fair words and sugar’d speeches of that cunning Woman.
1789. Wolcot (P. Pindar), Expost. Ode, X. Wks. 1812, II. 236. Like Children, charm’d with Praise’s sugar’d song.
1863. Kinglake, Crimea (1877), II. 165. The cheap sugared words are quickly forgotten.
1891. Farrar, Darkn. & Dawn, xxxv. She understood that sugared letter which had summoned her from Antium!
† f. Of kisses. Obs.
a. 1586. Sidney, Astr. & Stella, Sonn. lxxiii. A sugared kiss In sport I suckt.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., IV. iii. So sugred, so melting, so soft, so delicious.
1658. E. Phillips, Myst. Love, Gen. Lud. (1685), 17. Kisses. Tempting,… sugred, lingring.
† g. Of persons: Sweet, precious. Obs.
c. 1475. Partenay, 3848. Adieu, my sugret suete souerain lorde!
1583. Wastnes, in Melbancke’s Philotimus, To Author. God prosper thee (my sugred darling boy).
