ppl. a. [f. BRIDLE v. + -ED.] Furnished or equipped with a bridle, in various senses; curbed, restrained, controlled.

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c. 1385.  Chaucer, L. G. W., 1112. Ther nas courser well ybridled none.

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c. 1400.  Maundev., xxiii. 253. An hors sadeled and brydeled.

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c. 1430.  Stans Puer ad M., 33, in Babees Bk. (1868), 29. Drinke not bridelid for haste ne necligence.

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1710.  Steele, Tatler, No. 196, ¶ 3. A bridled Rage.

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1713.  Young, Last Day, I. 274. The bridled monsters awful distance keep.

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1852.  Tupper, Proverb. Philos., 193. His bridled steed.

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