ppl. a. [f. LAUREL sb.1 or v. + -ED.] a. Adorned, crowned or wreathed with laurel. Hence fig. honored, illustrious: cf. LAUREATE. † Laurelled letters: cf. LAUREATE A. 1 c. b. Covered with a growth of laurel; also, made of laurel.
1682. Dryden, Dk. Guise, III. i. The Trophies of my Lawrell’d Honesty Shou’d bar me from forsaking this bad World. Ibid. (1693), Persius Sat. (1697), 496. Th’ Express is come With Laurell’d Letters from the Camp to Rome.
1700. Prior, Carmen Seculare, 379. From his oozy Bed, Boyn shall raise his Laurell’d Head.
1744. Akenside, Pleas. Imag., I. 413. The choir Of laurel’d science.
1791. E. Darwin, Bot. Gard., I. 56. Liberty returns with laurell’d peace.
1815. W. Taylor, in Monthly Rev., LXXVII. 471. Laurelled rather than excellent in funeral eulogy.
1822. Wordsw., Sonn., New Churches. Laurelled armies, not to be withstood—What serve they?
1867. M. Arnold, Heine’s Grave, 57. Here no sepulchre built In the laurell’d rock.
1879. Froude, Cæsar, xxvi. 442. With laurelled fasces and laurelled wreaths.
1886. Symonds, Renaiss. It., Catholic React. (1898), VII. viii. 32. How touching was the destiny of this laurelled exile [Tasso].
