ppl. a. [f. WANE v. + -ED1.] That has waned; diminished, decreased.

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1593.  Shaks., 3 Hen. VI., IV. vii. 4. Once more I shall enterchange My wained state, for Henries Regall Crowne.

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1640.  J. Gower, Ovid’s Festiv., II. 35. Ten times the Moon her waned light did gather.

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1810.  Scott, Lady of Lake, II. xxiii. Not so proud Was I of all that marshall’d crowd, Though the waned crescent own’d my might.

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1816.  Coleridge, Lay Serm., p. xxii. Like an aged mourner … who is watching the wained moon and sorroweth not.

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1818.  Keats, Endym., II. 482. When our love-sick queen did weep Over his waned corse.

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