ppl. a. [f. FLUTTER v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb. both trans. and intr. (In quot. 1589 perh. used for fittered.)
1589. Nashe, Anat. Absurd., Wks. (Grosart), I. 29. That those shoulde preferre their fluttered sutes before other mens glittering gorgious array.
1773. Graves, Euphrosyne (1776), I. 18.
Nay, though my Study thus you find, | |
The emblem of a flutterd mind. |
1813. Scott, Rokeby, IV. xxix.
A fluttered hope his accents shook, | |
A fluttered joy was in his look. |
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, xxxiii.
His fluttered faculties came back to roost | |
One after one, as fowls do. |