ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Deprived of the use of one’s limbs; lame, disabled; also transf. and fig.: see the verb.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 19048 (Cott.). Þar sagh þai lij, A man was criplid in þe parlesi.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Contrecho, weake, cripled.
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 173. It has no crutches to lean its crippled burden on.
1779–81. Johnson, L. P., Somervile. If blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous, it is crippled prose.
1810. J. Rowley, in Naval Chron., XXV. 162. One of them … had a crippled frigate in tow.
1864. Earl Derby, Iliad, I. 712. The crippled Vulcan, matchless architect.
