[f. prec. sb.] trans. (chiefly pass.) † a. To transform into a trophy. Obs. rare–1. b. To bestow a trophy upon, celebrate with a trophy. c. To adorn with a trophy or trophies; also fig. (See also TROPHIED.)
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., V. xi. And so, swolne Niobe … was trophæed into stone.
1631. Heywood, 2nd Pt. Fair Maid of West, I. i. If it prove as I have fashiond it, I shall be trophide ever. Ibid. (1632), 1st Pt. Iron Age, IV. Wks. 1874, III. 328. You beare your selfe more equall then you ought, With one so trophy’d.
1806. Moore, Epist., ix. 159. Heroes, trophied high In ancient fame.
1816. Byron, Ch. Har., III. xvii. Is the spot mark’d with no colossal bust? Nor column trophied for triumphal show?
1825. Campbell, Poems, Stanzas Spanish Patriots, i. Looking on your graves, though trophied not, As holier hallow’d ground than priests could make the spot!
1847. R. W. Hamilton, Disq. Sabbath, ii. (1848), 55. The Sabbath of the old covenant … descends to us trophied with holy illustrations.
