ppl. a. [f. BLOSSOM sb. and v. + -ED.] Full or covered with blossoms; in full bloom, opened into flower.

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c. 1374.  Chaucer, Parl. Foules (MS. Ff.), 183. A garden saw I full of blossummede bowes.

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1503.  Hawes, Examp. Virt., iii. 32. A royall tre With buddys blossomed of grete beaute.

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1593.  Barnes, Elegies, in Arb., Garner, V. 455. The blossomed Hawthorn, white as chalk.

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1824.  Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. I. (1863), 79. Bright tufts of blossomed broom.

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1830.  Tennyson, Circumstance, 2. Two graves … Wash’d with still rains and daisy-blossomed.

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  fig.  1645.  Quarles, Sol. Recant., ii. 20. Thus fool’d with vain pursuit Of blossom’d happinesse that bears no fruit.

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1862.  B. Taylor, Poet’s Jrnl. (1866), 67. The fragrance of a blossomed heart.

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