ppl. a. [f. FLUTTER v. + -ED1.] In senses of the vb. both trans. and intr. (In quot. 1589 perh. used for fittered.)

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1589.  Nashe, Anat. Absurd., Wks. (Grosart), I. 29. That those … shoulde preferre their fluttered sutes before other mens glittering gorgious array.

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1773.  Graves, Euphrosyne (1776), I. 18.

          Nay, though my Study thus you find,
The emblem of a flutter’d mind.

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1813.  Scott, Rokeby, IV. xxix.

        A fluttered hope his accents shook,
A fluttered joy was in his look.

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1878.  Browning, Poets Croisic, xxxiii.

        His fluttered faculties came back to roost
  One after one, as fowls do.

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