ppl. a. [f. WEARY v. + -ED1.] (Excessively) fatigued; tired out. Also with out. Of a look, sigh: Expressive of or indicating weariness.
1538. Elyot, Dict., Exercitus, exercised, vsed in labour, weried, hardned.
1560. Daus, trans. Sleidane’s Comm., 419 b. Being so faint and weried with traveling.
1577. Grange, Golden Aphrod., D iij. Whilest he thought to haue rested his weried limmes in a bedde of security.
1594. Shaks., Rich. III., IV. iv. 112. Now thy proud Necke, beares halfe my burthen’d yoke, From which, euen heere I slip my wearied head.
1628. May, Virg. Georg., II. 63. And time it is to ease our wearyed horse.
a. 1646. Z. Boyd, in Zion’s Flowers (1855), App. 17. My wearied soul he doth restore.
1667. Milton, P. L., I. 320. Or have ye chos’n this place After the toyl of Battel to repose Your wearied vertue.
1746. Francis, trans. Hor., Sat., I. v. 28. Till wearied passenger retires to rest.
1820. Scott, Monast., xvii. Why art thou so well pleased that the morning should call thee up to daily toil, and the evening again lay thee down a wearied-out wretch? Ibid. (1823), Quentin D., xxxvi. The wearied and wounded … were calling in vain for shelter and refreshment.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, xlviii. Wearing the depressed and wearied look of one who [etc.].
1841. S. Warren, Ten Thou., I. viii. He stretches his wearied limbs to their uttermost.
1872. Tennyson, Gareth & Lynette, 1234. Yet not less I felt Thy manhood thro’ that wearied lance of thine.
1888. Black, In Far Lochaber, xxiii. She turned away with a wearied sigh.
Comb. 1849. C. Brontë, Shirley, xi. She came back … pale and wearied-looking.
Hence Weariedly adv., Weariedness.
a. 1617. Bayne, Lect. (1634), 308. The more weariednesse we feele, the more we may be bold this way.
1681. Rycaut, trans. Gracian’s Critick, 81. Having … weariedly travelled over much ground, they met no Man. Ibid., 161. When the other Sences weariedly retire to their repose,… these careful Centinels of the Soul, attend their guards.
1688. Sandilands, Salut. Endeared Love, 30. Which brings a weariedness, faintness, and benummedness over them.
1815. Scott, Guy M., xlvi. The poor Dominie … weariedly plodded his way towards Woodbourne.
1865. Mrs. Newby, Common Sense, xlvi. II. 247. ‘What a mother!’ exclaimed Mrs. Sowerby, weariedly.
1872. Tennyson, Last Tourn., 156. Sighing weariedly.
1886. Daily News, 12 Oct., 3/1. Weariedly trudging home.
