ppl. a. [f. FESTER v.1 + -ED1.] In senses of the vb.; lit. and fig.
1430. Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy, II. xii.
| Which hast of newe made festred sores smert, | |
| Whan thou art ones raked in an herte. |
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 254 b. Vnto the openynge of the foresayd closed and festred woundes.
a. 1533. Frith, Another Bk. agst. Rastell (1829), 220. My youth hath disclosed their festered ignorance.
1602. Fulbecke, 1st Pt. Parall., 15. Else the secrete fault was some festered and inueterate disease.
1671. Milton, Samson, 184.
| Apt words have power to swage | |
| The tumors of a troubl’d mind, | |
| And are as Balm to fester’d wounds. |
