pa. pple. Obs. [An earlier formation than travestied pa. pple. of TRAVESTY v.; prob. intended as the repr. of It. travestito, F. travesti, on analogy of vested, invested, etc.] Disguised; travestied.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Travested, disguised or shifted in apparel; And metaphorically it may be applyed to any thing that is translated out of one language into another.
1687. Montague & Prior, Hind & P. Transv., Pref. A iij. Homer has been Burlesque’d, and Virgil Travested without suffering any thing in their Reputation from that Buffoonry.
1725. Bentley, Rem. Collins’ Disc. Freethink., liv. III. 12. I see poor Lucan Travested, not apparel’d in his Roman Toga, but under the cruel Sheers of an English Tailor.
1752. Warburton, Serm. Ps. cxliv. 3, Wks. 1788, V. 30. To make God … the … inspector into human actions, is … returning him to the people, travested to the mortal size of local godship.
