[f. BLOAT v.2 + -ED.]
1. Of the body, face, etc.: Swollen, puffed up, turgid; esp. as describing the effect of gluttony and self-indulgence.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 475. Disguised in some uncouth habit with circumcised crowns, and moaped or bloated looks.
1711. F. Fuller, Med. Gymn., 56. A Bloated Habit of Body.
1713. Guardian, No. 17 (1756), I. 79. The tender fool has wept till her eyes are swelled and bloated.
1782. Cowper, Progr. Err., 495. Bloated spiders.
1820. Keats, St. Agnes, xxxix. The bloated wassailers will never heed.
2. transf. and fig. a. Of things: Swollen, inflated, crammed; overgrown, of excessive size.
1711. trans. Werenfelsius’ Meteors of Stile, 235. He affected the Eloquence of bloated and high-sounding Words.
1785. Cowper, Task, I. 739. His overgorged and bloated purse.
1846. Prescott, Ferd. & Is., III. xvi. 194. The bloated magnificence of succeeding monarchs.
1862. Disraeli, in Hansard, Ser. III. CLXVI. 1426. Those bloated armaments which naturally involve states in financial embarassments.
1879. Geo. Eliot, Theo. Such, ii. 47. Its bloated, idle charities.
b. Of persons or their attributes: Swollen with pride of rank or wealth; puffed up, pampered.
1731. Swift, To Gay, Wks. 1755, IV. I. 169. A statesman … A bloated minister.
1863. Stanley, Jew. Ch., xiii. 311. The bloated pluralists of the mediæval Church.
1868. J. H. Blunt. Ref. Ch. Eng., I. 355. The ‘bloated aristocracy’ of a republican ideal.
3. Comb., as bloated-bellied adj.
1875. B. Taylor, Faust, I. xxi. 180. Is’t the salamander pushes Bloated-bellied through the bushes?
