Listed a.²

[f. LIST sb.³ II + -ED².]

  1.  Of ground: Enclosed in or converted into lists for tilting. Of a combat: Fought in the lists.

1671.  Milton, Samson, 1087. Those encounters, where we might have tri’d Each others force in camp or listed field.

1727–46.  Thomson, Summer, 1470. Bold … are thy generous youth,… and first Or on the listed plain or stormy seas.

1793.  Southey, Lett., in Dowden, Life (1880), 30. The tapestried room—the listed fight—the vassal-filled hall.

1812.  Joanna Baillie, Orra, I. i. Wks. (1851), 237. In these listed combats.

1818.  Byron, Ch. Har., IV. cxxxix. On battle-plains or listed spot?

1862.  Goulburn, Pers. Relig., vii. III. (1873), 216. To fight it out with them inch by inch in a listed field.

  2.  Engaged in the lists.

1861.  Lytton & Fane, Tannhäuser, 37. The blazon’d urn That held the name-scrolls of the listed bards.