ppl. a. arch. [f. L. ēmerit-us (see next) + -ED.] Chiefly of soldiers and sailors: That has retired from active service, served out his time; hence, skilled through long practice or experience. See EMERITUS.
1664. Evelyn, Sylva (1776), 579. Emerited and well deserving Seamen and Mariners. Ibid. (1681), Diary (1827), III. 61. A Royal Hospital for emerited souldiers.
1859. Sala, Tw. round Clock, 274. The saturnalia of the most emerited thieves. Ibid., 370–1. The abhorred ‘Palmerstoni’ whom papal gensd’arme imagine to be an emerited brigand.
