ppl. a. [f. THRONG v. + -ED1.]

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  1.  Closely packed, as a multitude of people or things; crowded.

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1652.  Benlowes, Theoph., VII. iv. Those throng’d figures sum not Thee.

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1713.  Addison, Cato, II. i. The thick array Of his thronged legions.

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1822.  J. MacDonald, Mem. J. Benson, 463. He addressed a thronged audience.

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1860.  Pusey, Min. Proph., 270. The mariners … ask Jonah thronged questions.

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1908.  Mrs. E. Wharton, Hermit & Wild Wom., 38. When the Hermit opened his eyes once more the air shone with thronged candle-flames.

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  2.  Of a place, etc.: Closely packed with people or things; crowded.

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1594.  [see THRONG v. 6 c].

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1613.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. v. 115. As vnder their [trees’] command the thronged Creeke Ran lessened vp.

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1746–7.  Hervey, Medit. (1818), 251. To slip away from the thronged city.

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1831.  Scott, Ct. Robt., xxiii. A loud and varied murmur, resembling that of a thronged hive.

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1889.  Gretton, Memory’s Harkback, 189. To me these thronged places are wearisome in the extreme.

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  b.  Of time: Full of work or business; busily occupied; busy. dial.

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1791.  Isabella Wilson, in Mem. (1825), 36. We have had a thronged time with our harvest.

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1832.  Yorkshire Dial., We had a very thronged day.

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