verb. (old).—1. To hang. [ROGERS, Royal Historical Society, viii.: ‘From the harsh and merciless manner in which Sir Jerome Alexander, an Irish judge (1660–1674) and founder of the Alexander Library at Trinity College, Dublin, carried out the duties of his office.’]
2. (old).—To extol as an Alexander the Great.
1700. DRYDEN, Tales from Chaucer, ‘The Cock and Fox,’ 660.
| Ye princes, rais’d by poets to the gods, | |
| And ALEXANDER’D up in lying odes. |
