ppl. a. [f. ESTEEM v. + -ED1.] Held in esteem, valued, respected.
1549. Cheke, Hurt Sedit., C iij b. What an hynderaunce is it, to haue a good garmente hurte … or anye estemed thyng to be decaied.
1647–8. Cotterell, Davila’s Hist. Fr. (1678), 8. A man of subtil wit, and esteemed valour.
1781. J. Moore, View Soc. It. (1790), II. lxxviii. 450. Ornamented with some highly esteemed sculpture in wood.
1828. Scott, F. M. Perth, xviii. According to the esteemed qualities of the time.
1871. Carlyle, in Mrs. Carlyle’s Lett., I. 247. An esteemed tutor in noble families.
