ppl. a. [f. WONDER sb. or v. + -ED.]

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  † 1.  Wonderful, marvelous. Obs.

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c. 1586.  C’tess Pembroke, Ps. XCVI. ii. Of his actes the wondred story Paint unto each people forth. Ibid., CVI. ix. God … Preserv’d them soe by miracles of might,… And wondred works.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., viii. 448. Into what sundry gyres her wondered self she throws.

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  2.  Wondered-at: see WONDER v. 1 a, d.

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a. 1611.  Chapman, Iliad, XXIV. 420. A great time Achilles gaz’d vpon His wonderd-at approch. Ibid. (1615), Odyss., XI. 242. My Father … vsde no sumptuous beds, Wonderd at furnitures.

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1637.  Rutherford, Lett., 8 Aug. (1881), 96. My … never-enough-wondered-at Lord Jesus.

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  ¶  In the following, wondred is virtually in parasynthetic comb. (‘performing such rare wonders’).

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1610.  Shaks., Temp., IV. i. 123. So rare a wondred Father.

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