ppl. a. [f. APPAREL v. + -ED.] Prepared, made ready, furnished (obs.); equipped, rigged; clothed, attired, dressed; decked, adorned; spec. embroidered (as ecclesiastical vestments).
1483. Caxton, Cato, F ij b. Paradyse whyche is euer apparaylled and redy for to receyue them that haue been stronge and vertuous in this worlde.
1598. Barret, Theor. Warres, II. i. 21. To go well apparelled and well armed.
1823. Lamb, Elia, I. viii. (1865), 67. In the goodly ornature of well-apparelled speech.
1849. Rock, Ch. of Fathers, I. v. 434. An appareled alb of linen.
