ppl. a. [f. FAULT sb. and v. + -ED.] Having faults.
1. Having faults of character, faulty.
1608. Machin, etc., Dumb Knight, III. i., in Hazl., Dodsley, X. 157.
| Her scorn and pride had almost lost her life; | |
| A maid so faulted seldom proves good wife. |
2. Geol. Cf. FAULT sb. 9.
1858. Geikie, Hist. Boulder, xi. 228. I have traced them over a large part of Mid-Lothian, from the highly inclined beds at Joppa to the contorted and faulted strata near Carlops.
1863. Dana, Man. Geol., 727. The inequality of the faulted parts of the veins.
1881. E. Hull, in Nature, XXIII. 289. Durness limestone and its faulted position.
† 3. Reproached as faulty, impugned. Obs.
1628. Bp. Hall, The Old Religion, xvi. § 2 (1633), 40. Our Saviour, upon the Mount tells him … that these faulted Traditions were of old.
