Fruited

ppl. a. [f. FRUIT v. + -ED².]

  † 1.  Having fruit of a certain kind. Obs.

1612.  T. James, Jesuits’ Downf., 4. Fie on such Fatherhood, so rooted, so fruited.

  2.  a. Of a branch, tree, etc.: Having fruit upon it. b. Abounding in or laden with fruit.

1784.  Burns, ‘Now Westlin Winds,’ iv. Let us … view … The rustling corn, the fruited thorn, And ev’ry happy creature.

1850.  Blackie, Æschylus, II. 122. Mighty Jove, the gracious giver … Crown the fruited year!

1864.  Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xiii. (ed. 3), 124. A lion’s head crowned, stands upon a wreath of peach-branches fruited, the peaches charged as before.

1885.  Manch. Exam., 14 July, 4/5. The plant … though small is unusually heavily fruited.

1888.  Morris, Burghers’ Battle, in Athenæum, 16 June, 761/2. The shadows of the fruited close Dapple the feast-hall floor.

1910.  Katharine Lee Bates, America the Beautiful, 1.