ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED.]
1. Formed into curd; coagulated, congealed, clotted.
1596. Spenser, Astrophel, 152. With crudled blood and filthie gore deformed.
1676. J. Beaumont, in Phil. Trans., XI. 733. Fill’d with a milky crudeled substance.
1819. Shelley, Cyclops, 129. Store of curdled cheese.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xxiii. The curdled wounds gave no sign of blood.
b. fig. of the blood, etc.
1697. Dryden, Virg. Æneid, II. 766. I felt my crudled Blood congeal with Fear.
1815. Byron, Parisina, xiv. As ice were in her curdled blood.
c. transf. and fig.
1590. Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 6. Till crudled cold his corage gan assayle.
1602. Marston, Ant. & Mel., I. i. Wks. 1856, I. 16. Crudl’d fogges masked even darknesse brow.
1685. H. More, Some Cursory Refl., 10. This cold and crudled Infidelity.
1821. Clare, Vill. Minstr., II. 93. O’er the water crink’d the curdled wave.
1850. Kingsley, Alt. Locke, xxviii. Dark curdled clouds … swept on.
2. Of a lens: (see quot.)
1832. G. R. Porter, Porcelain & Gl., 245. When this fault [imperfect polishing] exists in a degree so exaggerated as to be visible to the naked eye, the lens is said to be curdled.
