pa. pple. and ppl. a. Obs. [f. L. viduāt-, ppl. stem of viduāre: see prec.] Left widowed, desolate or destitute.
1660. Waterhouse, Arms & Arm., 175. St. Pauls, thy viduated Mother Church.
1687. Wood, Life (O.H.S.), III. 218. In the beginning of this month came up at Oxon ‘a health to the Church dowager,’ i.e. distressed or viduated Church of England.
c. 1718. Life R. Frampton (1876), 202. To intercede with them at helm, that the Church might not be viduated.
1727. Bailey (vol. II.).
