ppl. a. [f. COAT sb. and v.]
1. Clad in a coat; furnished with or having a coat or coats. Often in Often in parasynthetic comb., as long-coated, thick-coated. † Coated card: = COAT-CARD (applied by Foxe to the priests).
1563–87. Foxe, A. & M., 919 (R.). Nowe commeth in Sir Thomas More trumping in our weie, with his painted card. Thus these coated-cardes, though they could not by plain Scriptures conuince him being alive, yet now after his death by false plaie they will make him theires whether he will or no.
1570. Levins, Manip., 51. Coted … tunicatus.
1580. Blundevil, Diet. Horses (1609), 12 b. Some horses are thicker coted than others.
1737. Miller, Gard. Dict. (ed. 3), s.v. Corona Imperialis, It hath a coated Root.
1861. W. F. Collier, Hist. Eng. Lit., 123. Hordes of long-coated peasants.
b. Formed into a coat, constituting a coat. rare.
1814. Southey, Roderick, XII. The coated scales of steel Which o’er the tunic to his knees depend.
† 2. Furnished with armorial bearings. Obs.
1690. Lond. Gaz., No. 2576/4. 3 Casters, 6 Spoons, 2 Forks … all Coated, with a Bend betwixt 2 Swans.
3. Covered with a coat or coating of some substance, as paint, tinfoil, etc.
1766. Lane, in Phil. Trans., LVII. 455. The quantity of electric fluid … will be proportionate to the quantity of coated glass.
1776. Withering, Brit. Plants (1796), II. 326. Myosurus … seeds numerous, coated, pendent.
1863. Wynter, Subtle Brains & Lissom Fingers, 341. A Leyden jar or coated pane.
