[f. TRAIN v.1 + -ED1.] In various senses corresponding to those of the verb.
† 1. Drawn, trailed along, etc.; fig. attracted, allured, enticed. Obs.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Oct., 24. Whereto thou list their trayned willes entice.
2. Disciplined; made proficient by discipline. a. spec. Subjected to military discipline and instruction, drilled; esp. in trained band = TRAINBAND (now Hist.); so † trained man, soldier, a soldier belonging to a trainband (obs.).
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1596), 70. The trained companies only shall resort to the places of their appointed Rendeuous.
1594. Sir H. Cocke, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. III. 175. Havinge … taken a perfect vyewe of all the Trayned Bandes.
1611. Bible, Gen. xiv. 14. Abram … armed his trained seruants.
1617. Moryson, Itin., II. 105. To haue six thousand of the trained bands in readines.
1644. Prynne & Walker, Fiennes’ Trial, App. 25. Iames Powell of Bristoll, one of the Trained Souldiers of that City [called below Train Soldiers].
1707. E. Chamberlayne, Pres. St. Eng., II. xvi. (ed. 22), 217. Of the standing Militia, or Trained-Bands.
1827. Hallam, Const. Hist. (1876), II. ix. 133. The citizens of London mustered their trained bands on holidays.
b. gen. Disciplined, instructed, educated; made proficient by discipline and instruction.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Note-bks. (1872), I. 21. The women … have a trained expression that supplies the place of beauty.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VII. 855. To engage a trained hospital nurse.
1910. D. G. Hogarth, in Encycl. Brit., I. 248/2. An Art, whose products cannot be confounded with those of any other … by a trained eye.
3. Of a plant: Artificially caused to grow in some desired way; of a woman’s figure, made slender or shaped by wearing a corset.
1766. Compl. Farmer, s.v. Peach-tree, Such trees, which are of one year’s growth from the budding,… will soon overtake in growth those which are called trained trees.
1786. Abercrombie, Gard. Assist., 311. Those ready trained, denominated trained trees.
1871. Figure Training, 90. Slender and elegantly trained figures.
