ppl. a. [f. JADE v. + -ED1.]
1. Worn out or exhausted; fatigued; fagged out.
1693. Sir C. Sedley, Prol. to H. Higden’s Wary Widdow. Their Jaded Muse is distanc’d in the Course.
1798. Bloomfield, Farmer’s Boy, Summer, 106. Unwittingly his jaded eyelids close.
1809. Byron, Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers, 145. Each spurs his jaded Pegasus apace.
1865. Lecky, Ration. (1878), II. 319. Charming away the weariness of the jaded mind.
2. Dull or sated by continual use or indulgence.
1631. Brathwait, Eng. Gentlew. (1641), 305. Former times were not so jaded to fashions as to esteeme nothing formall, but what was phantasticall.
1744. Armstrong, Preserv. Health, II. 158. To spur beyond Its wiser will the jaded appetite.
1828. W. Sewell, Oxf. Prize Ess., 39. Nature was tortured in every way to stimulate the jaded palate.
† 3. ? Regarded with contempt. Obs.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., IV. i. 52. The honourable blood of Lancaster Must not be shed by such a iaded Groome.
Hence Jadedly adv., in a jaded or fatigued manner; Jadedness, the state of being worn out.
1885. Howells, Silas Lapham (1891), II. 132. Lapham listened jadedly, and answered far from the point.
1896. A. J. Wilson, in Westm. Gaz., 27 April, 8/1. Days … saddened by incessant toil, performed in weakness of body and jadedness of brain.
1899. Beatrice Harraden, Fowler, vi. 49. The worldliness fled from her soul, the jadedness from her spirit.
