ppl. a. [f. CLEAR v. + -ED1.] Made clear.
a. 1711. Ken, Psyche, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 211. Our clear’d Heav’n-erected Eyes.
1856. Olmsted, Slave States, 17. Of the cleared land, not more than one quarter seems to have been lately in cultivation.
Hence Clearedness rare–1, enlightenment.
1655. Fuller, Ch. Hist., XI. ix. § 68 (W.). Imputed by his friends to the clearedness, by his foes to the searedness of his Conscience.
