ppl. a. [f. COUNTENANCE sb. and v. + -ED.]

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  1.  [f. the sb.] Having a (specified) countenance.

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1594.  Carew, Huarte’s Exam. Wits (1616), 277. She cannot be fairely countenanced.

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1607.  Walkington, Opt. Glass, 130. Dull-paced, sad countenanced.

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1820.  Wordsw., Sonn. River Duddon, xx. Countenanced like a soft cerulean sky.

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  2.  [f. the vb.] Favored, supported, etc.: see COUNTENANCE v. 5.

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1692.  Locke, Toleration, III. ix. The … unthinking Part of Men; who without Thought … may embrace the Profession of the countenanced Religion.

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