ppl. a. [f. VOWEL sb. or v. + -ED.] Of language or words: Supplied or provided with vowels, esp. to an unusual extent, Also with qualifying term, as well-vowelled.
1662. Playford, Skill Mus., I. xi. (1674), 56. The Italian Language is more smooth and better vowelled than the English.
1684. Dryden, To Earl of Roscommon, 17. Pauses, cadence, and well-vowell’d Words.
1792. Anna Seward, Lett. (1811), III. 142. My own exquisitely rich and harmonious language; the growing Latinity of which has already … rendered it sufficiently vowelled, sufficiently sweet, copious, and sonorous.
1820. Keats, Lamia, II. 200. While fluent Greek a vowel’d under-song Kept up.
1860. Farrar, Orig. Lang., 67. The soft and vowelled undersong of modern Italian.
1869. Meredith, Lett., 19 Dec. (1912), I. 198. Isn’t there a scent of damned hypocrisy in all this lisping and vowelled purity of the Idylls?
1883. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 431/2. By melodious juxtaposition, by artful alliteration, by vowelled breathings and consonantal crashes of harmony.
b. Having vowels of a specified kind or quality.
1783. J. Beattie, Diss., I. 365. The long-vowelled emphatick syllable, which is always long, and the short-vowelled emphatick syllable, which, when long, is made so by the complexness of the final consonants.
1868. Geo. Eliot, Sp. Gipsy, I. 61. As full vowelled words Are new impregnate with the master’s thought.
