1631. T. May, trans. Barclay Mirrour of Mindes, I. 187. Hee himselfe was glad to haue himselfe saluted … by noe high or envied names, but sometimes plaine William.
1667. Milton, P. L., II. 244. Our envied Sovran.
1750. Gray, Elegy, 24. No children … climb his knees the envied kiss to share.
1815. W. H. Ireland, Scribbleomania, 59, note. The envied honours of Parnassus.
a. 1859. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., V. 199. Grandees who had the envied privilege of going in coaches and four through the streets.
absol. 1685. Gracian’s Courtiers Orac., 151. Enviers die as often as they hear the praises of the Envied revive.
c. 1800. K. White, Lett. (1837), 263. Yet it often happens that the condition of the envier is happier than that of the envied.
1886. R. F. Burton, Arab. Nts., I. 107. It would besit thee to pardon me even as the Envied pardoned the Envier.
