ppl. a. [f. ADMIRE v. + -ED.]

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  1.  Regarded with admiration; wondered at; contemplated with wonder mingled with esteem, etc.; wonderful, surprising.

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c. 1430.  Pol. Rel. & Love Poems, 49, 453. And ther-too schee was well emyred.

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1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., I. ii. 89. All the admired Beauties of Verona.

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1621.  Howell, Lett. (1650), II. 50. Venice … the admiredst city in the world.

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1709.  Pope, Ess. Criticism, 502. Then most our trouble still when most admird.

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1867.  Ingelow, Story of Doom, III. 77. And half-shut fans of his admired wings.

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  2.  Astonished; struck with wonder.

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a. 1700.  Ballads on Gt. Frost, 1683–4 (1844), 4. All stand admir’d, and very well they may To see such pastimes.

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