Obs. [app. evolved from a misunderstanding of prec. (perh. in the phrase ‘the best linguist’), the ending being taken for that of a pa. pple.] Skilled in languages, ‘languaged.’
1607. Breton, Murmurer (Grosart), 7/1. So profoundly read in the rules of the best learning, and so well Linguist in the most necessary Languages.
1630. J. Taylor (Water P.), Elegy Prince Henry, Wks. II. 336/1. Mean time she [my Muse] ’mongst the linguish’d Poets throngs, Although she want the helpe of Forraigne tongs.
1632. Lithgow, Trav., X. 499. They are … delicately linguishd, the most part of them, being brought vp in France or Italy.
