ppl. a. [f. VISION sb. or v.]
1. Seen in a vision.
1510. Clereville (title), The Copye of the letter folowynge whiche specifyeth of ye greatest and meruelous visyoned batayle that euer was sene.
1803. Scott, Cadyow Castle, xxix. Whose cheek is pale, whose eyeballs glare, As one some vision’d sight that saw.
1807. J. Barlow, Columb., I. 19. Till vision’d ages, opening on his eyes, Cheer’d his sad soul.
1838. Chalmers, Introd. Ess. Chr. Def. agst. Infidelity, Wks. 1849, XIII. 298. The battles of the faith against the dark and the visioned spectres of geology.
1863. Ld. Lytton, Ring Amasis, II. III. xiii. As … he pressed that solemn kiss upon the visioned thing I could not see.
2. Associated with, arising from, a vision or visions.
1817. Scott, Harold, VI. xii. Trembling at first,… Had Gunnar heard the vision’d tale.
1822. Beddoes, Bride’s Trag., IV. iv. I dreamed and in that visioned agony ’Twas whispered by strange voices [etc.].
1853. Jerdan, Autobiog., III. 170. In her inmost abstract and visioned moods … she was the Poet.
1891. C. Dawson, Avonmore, IV. 79. Braver from that visioned thought, I duty did and duty sought.
3. Gifted with vision; having the power of seeing visions.
1813. Shelley, Q. Mab, I. 68. The visioned poet in his dreams, When silvery clouds float through the ’wildered brain.
1830. Moir, Tower of Ercildoune, iv. Methinks the visioned bard I see … Piercing the mazy depths of Time.
1866. R. S. Storrs, Serm., in Bible Soc. Rec., Feb. (1894). Of such a majestic teacher as Ezekiel, the visioned prophet,… we know almost nothing.
4. Full of visions.
1815. Shelley, Alastor, 682. The dream Of dark magician in his visioned cave.
