ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Wearied in body or mind; troubled; harassed. Obs. or arch.
c. 1420. Prov., in Rel. Ant., I. 233. Wele traveled wymen or wele traveled horsses were never good.
c. 1540. trans. Pol Verg. Eng. Hist. (Camden), I. 79. Agricola issuinge owte of his tentes succored and refresshed his traveled soldiers.
1644. Milton, Educ., Wks. 1738, I. 140. Composing their travail’d spirits with the solemn and divine harmonies.
1832. L. Hunt, Poems, 255. Could my spirit … Slip from my travailled flesh.
† 2. Experienced, versed, or learned (in a subject, etc.), as the result of working at it. (Cf. well-read.)
1551. T. Wilson, Logike (1580), A iij b. Your grace [Edw. VI.] … little needeth any helpe…, beeyng so well trauailed bothe in the Greke and in the Latine.
1647. Torshell, Design, 18. Daniel was a man … much travelled in Revelations.
1742. Fielding, Jos. Andrews, II. ix. I am not much travelled in the history of modern times.
3. That is or has been in travail or child-bed.
1842. R. S. Hawker, Cornish Ballads, etc. (1908), 130. A cottage bed, for there A travailed woman lay.
