pa. pple. and ppl. a. [Either f. WONT sb. + -ED, or an extension of WONT pa. pple., apprehended later as pa. pple. of WONT v.]
A. pa. pple. † 1. = WONT pa. pple. 2. Obs.
a. 1413. Chaucer’s Troylus, V. 277 (Campsall MS.). And whiten gan the Orisonte shene Al Estward as it wonted is to done [v.rr. Al Esturwarde as it wonte is to done; Al estward as it was wone to done].
c. 1450. Lovelich, Merlin, 6779. Lo, Sire, Merlyne Js comen to ȝow here, That ȝe Weren Wonted to loven so Wel.
1557. Phaër, Æneid., V. (1558), N ij b. Syr Erix wonted was to giue combat.
1566. Acts Privy Counc. Irel. (Hist. MSS. Comm.), 152. Omagher to contribute to Occarrall, as hath been wonted, the thirde parte of the said bonnaght.
1583. Stocker, Civ. Warres Lowe C., I. 15. A great Image … which was wonted to be set vp.
1606. G. W[oodcocke], Hist. Ivstine, XXXII. 109. Being enticed with the sweeteness of the prey as men wonted to liue together vpon the spoile.
1612. R. Sheldon, Serm. preached at S. Martins in the Fields, 15. O theefe, wonted with violence to violate men.
2. = WONT pa. pple. 1. Now U.S.
1610. C. Hampton, Serm., 2. He prouided … a tent, whereunto it had beene wonted.
1614. Sylvester, Parl. Vertues Royall, 1305. The Angell, wonted to Heav’n’s Blisse-full Hall, Made little stay in this unholesome Stall.
1637. Earl Monm., trans. Malvezzi’s Romulus & Tarquin, 295. The Romanes were … accustomed to war, wonted to victory.
1692. R. L’Estrange, Fables, I. clxv. 138. She was wonted to the Place, she said, and would not Remove.
1847. Emerson, Repr. Men, Shakespeare, Wks. (Bohn), I. 364. Dramatic materials to which the people were already wonted.
1851. Hawthorne, Ho. Sev. Gables, v. (1904), 98. Hepzibah had fully satisfied herself of the impossibility of ever becoming wonted to this … obstreperous little bell.
1878. H. H., in Scribner’s Monthly, XVI. 56/2. Afterward we grew wonted to their beauty.
1893. C. E. Norton, in Harper’s Mag., LXXXVI. 855/1. It was long before he [J. R. Lowell] became wonted to his new station.
b. absol. Made familiar with one’s environment. Now U.S.
1610. Markham, Masterp., I. lxxvi. 159. Others vse to leade the horse to a … sheepe-pen, where great store of sheepe are wonted.
1641. [see WONTING c].
1870. Lowell, Study Wind., I. 14. I had crows…. They grew so wonted as … to tolerate my near approach. Ibid. (1874), Lett., II. 138. I long to get back, and yet am just beginning to get wonted (as they say of babies and new cows) over here.
B. ppl. a. Accustomed, customary, usual. Now arch. or U.S.
1408. in Hakl. Voy. (1599), I. 177. According to their woonted maner.
1553. Ascham, Rept. Germany, A iij. Letters … full of your wonted good will towardes me.
1574. in Hist. Fam. Fortescue (1869), II. 234. Savage did send into the grounds, with the hounds, but the wonted boy, with 2 keepers.
1576. in W. H. Turner, Select. Rec. Oxford (1880), 384. The wonted streame … ys … taken awaye.
1624. Capt. J. Smith, Virginia, V. 199. It being growne past the wonted season of the comming in of ships.
1671. Milton, P. R., IV. 449. Out of the wood he starts in wonted shape.
1710. Berkeley, Princ. Hum. Knowl., § 3, Wks. 1871, I. 138. The wonted indulgent methods of Providence.
1750. Gray, Elegy, 92. E’en in our Ashes live their wonted Fires.
1823. Scott, Quentin D., xxvi. The King…, in a threadbare cloak, with his wonted old high-crowned hat stuck full of images.
1848. Lowell, Fable for Critics, lii. Archæologians … Have tried to make out, with a zeal more than wonted, ’T was a kind of wild swine that our ancestors hunted.
1850. Tennyson, In Mem., ci. 22. As year by year the labourer tills His wonted glebe.
1860. Maury, Phys. Geog., xii. § 539. 299. Which obstructions may prevent the winds from taking up … their wonted supplies of moisture.
absol. 1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. V. i. The Wonted tumbles down; by imitation, by invention, the Unwonted hastily builds itself up.
