ppl. a. [f. EDUCATE v. + -ED.] That has received education, mental or physical; instructed, trained, etc.; see the vb. Often with an adverb prefixed, as half-, over-, well-.
1670. R. Coke, Disc. Trade, 60. A Merchant better educated, and more conversant in Trade, may better understand it, than a Privy Counsellor, who is not so educated, and less conversant in it.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, Tender-parnel, a very nicely Educated creature, apt to catch Cold upon the least blast of Wind.
1845. Disraeli, Sybil (1863), 67. He was over-educated for his intellect.
1855. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 320. He [Lochiel] might indeed have seemed ignorant to educated and travelled Englishmen.
1882. J. H. Blunt. Ref. Ch. Eng., II. 411. But the Puritans were neither educated nor reverent.
1887. E. Berdoe, St. Bernard’s, 168. Every half-educated, idle, and beer-boozing young man who can get one foot on the medical register.
b. transf. Carefully tended, trained into shape.
1842. Tennyson, E. Morris, 131. Slight Sir Robert with his watery smile And educated whisker.
† B. as sb. The person educated.
1673. O. Walker, Education, 213. It concerns … Parents and Educators to see that the educated converse as much as may be with his … superior. Ibid., 107. It will be the Teachers care and Educateds endeavour.
