ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.]
1. Made noble in rank, nature or character.
1586. A. Day, Eng. Secretary (1625), Ep. Ded. A ij. Your L. may please of your owne ennobled condition to wel-doing … to vouchsafe your liking to this latter.
1607. Rowlands, Famous Hist. Guy Warw. (1609), Ep. Ded. Right worthily enobled, and true honourable Lord.
1793. Southey, Triumph of Woman, 393. Raised supreme the ennobled race among.
1858. Robertson, Lect., i. 25. The newly ennobled looks down upon the newly rich.
† 2. Celebrated, famous, noted. Obs.
1571. Golding, Calvin on Ps. xxii. 14. The hill of Basan was ennobled for battling and rank pastures.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 136. Other cities there are … in Mesopotamia … innobled for their learning.
