a. or pa. pple. Also 5 i-yeerid. [f. YEAR + -ED.]
1. † That has lived or lasted a given number of years; so many years of age, or of so many years’ standing: as old i-yeerid = of old standing; twice yeared = that has lasted two years; yeared to thirty = thirty years of age (obs.). Also without qualification, That has lasted many years (poet.).
c. 1412. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 1858. Þou of þe pryue seel art old I-yeerid.
1583. Burghley, in Nicolas, Mem. Sir C. Hatton (1847), 323. His [sc. Oxford’s] fall in her Court, which is now twice yeared.
1603. B. Jonson, Sejanus, I. i. Year’d but to thirty.
1848. Bailey, Festus (1852), 282. White with all yearéd snows and radiant rime.
2. Phr. yeared and dayed, said of property left unclaimed for a year and a day, after which time the original owner’s claim lapsed: see YEAR 7 b (a).
1523. Fitzherb., Surv., xv. 28 b. They maye … cease theym as streyes and put them in sauegarde to the lordes vse tyll they be yered and deyed.
1579. Admiralty Crt. Exemplifications, 19, No. 105. There was driven … upon my libertie of Alverstoke … a certaine shipp … wheare she being yeered and daied according to the law of Oleron hath ever since remayned.
Yearethlye, obs. form of EARTHLY.
1553. Respublica, I. i. What yearethlye thinge is permanent or stable?
