ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.] In senses corresponding to those of the verb (lit. and fig.).

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c. 1600.  Shaks., Sonn., cxxix. Past reason hated as a swollowed bayt.

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1667.  Phil. Trans., II. 535. The dexterity of disengaging himself from the swallowed hook.

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1822–7.  Good, Study Med. (1829), I. 120. The swallowed morsel is carried forward into the stomach.

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1887.  Pall Mall G, 23 Nov., 4/2. Why should one more dose of swallowed principles disagree with him?

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1899.  Meredith, Poems, Night-Walk, 42. The posts that named the swallowed mile.

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