weaponedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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weaponed (not comparable)

1. Armed with a weapon.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene ii]:

     Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon’d; / Here is my journey's end, here is my butt, / And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.

   • 1820, Walter Scott, chapter XL, in Ivanhoe; a Romance. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Hurst, Robinson, and Co. […], OCLC 230694662:

     […] Wamba, though so imperfectly weaponed, did not hesitate to rush in and assist the Black Knight to rise.

   • 1846, Thomas Francis Meagher, The Secession Speech on the “Peace Resolutions” and the Exclusion of the “Nation” Newspaper from the Repeal Association, 26 July, 1846, in Arthur Griffith, editor, Meagher of the Sword, Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1916, p. 36,^[1]

     The man that will listen to reason, let him be reasoned with; but it is the weaponed arm of the patriot that can alone avail against battalioned despotism.

   • 1890, William Morris, “Men Meet in the Market of Silver-stead”, in The Roots of the Mountains […], London: Reeves and Turner […], OCLC 1316395, page 353:

     Then he cast his eyes on the road that entered the Market-stead from the north, and he saw thereon many men gathered; and he wotted not what they were; for though there were weapons amongst them, yet were they not all weaponed, as far as he could see.

   • 1922 October, A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, “[Poem] XXXI: Hell Gate”, in Last Poems, London: Grant Richards Ltd., OCLC 31583861, pages 62–63:

     But across the entry barred / Straddled the revolted guard, / Weaponed and accoutred well / From the arsenals of hell; […]

2. (figuratively) Equipped, prepared.
   • 1644, J[ohn] M[ilton], “The Preface”, in The Doctrine or Discipline of Divorce: […], 2nd edition, London: [s.n.], OCLC 868004604, book I, page 2:

     [Y]et now, if any two be but once handed in the church and have tasted in any sort of the nuptial bed, let them find themselves never so mistaken in their dispositions through any error, concealment or misadventure, that through their different tempers, thoughts and constitutions they can neither be to one another a remedy against loneliness nor live in any union or contentment all their days, yet they shall, so they be but found suitably weaponed to the least possibility of sensual enjoyment, be made, spite of antipathy, to fadge together, and combine as they may to their unspeakable wearisomeness and despair of all sociable delight in the ordinance which God established to that very end.