ppl. a. and a. [f. TRADE v. and sb. + -ED.]
I. † 1. Of a road: Much used or trodden; often traversed; frequented; also gen. habitually used.
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 6. A populous citie, and a well traded highway.
1591. in Hakluyt, Voy. (1600), III. 488. Heere be many Tygers … they vse the traded wayes.
a. 1631. [see TRADE v. 3].
† 2. Versed, skilled, practised; experienced; conversant, familiar. Obs.
1548. Gest, Pr. Masse, in Dugdale, Life (1840), App. 94. A great clerke and moch traded in auncient wryters.
1589. Nashe, Pref. Greene’s Menaphon (Arb.), 11. Sir Iohn Cheeke, a man of men, supernaturally traded in al tongues.
1606. Shaks., Tr. & Cr., II. ii. 64. Mine eyes and eares, Two traded Pylots ’twixt the dangerous shores Of Will, and Iudgement.
1654. H. L’Estrange, Chas. I. (1655), 17. A gentleman peculiarly qualifyed for and long traded in Sea exploits.
† 3. Of a place: Frequented or resorted to for the purpose of trading. (Usu. with well, etc.) Obs.
1585. T. Washington, trans. Nicholay’s Voy., IV. vii. 118 b. [The] cities of great Persia, wel traded with merchandize.
1610. Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 450. A proper and fine burrough it is, well traded and pleasantly seated.
1652–62. Heylin, Cosmogr., II. (1682), 94. Hannover,… well built, very strongly fortified, and not meanly traded.
1656. J. Chaloner, in D. King, Vale Royall, IV. 30. It [the Isle of Man] is traded with 4. Market-Towns, Castle-Town, Douglas, Peel-Town, and Ramsey.
1707. Funnell, Voy. (1729), 77. The biggest and best traded city in all America.
II. 4. Having a trade (of such a kind).
1631. T. Powell, Tom All Trades (1876), 170. The favour of great traded Merchants.
a. 1656. Hales, Gold. Rem., I. (1673), 67. To see another man meanly clad, meanly housed, meanly traded.
