ppl. a. [f. ATTIRE v. + -ED.]
† 1. Equipped, furnished, fitted out, prepared. Obs.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron., 148. A schip þer was of London, richely atired [Langtoft, de riche atiffement].
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), III. 360. I am a-tyred in my tower to tempt you þis tyde.
2. Dressed, clad.
c. 1350. Will. Palerne, 5043. Þe clergie … riȝt gailiche atyred.
1588. Shaks., Tit. A., V. iii. 30. Why art thou thus attir’d?
1791. Cowper, Iliad, XVIII. 473. Charis, Vulcan’s well-attired spouse.
Mod. A woman plainly but decently attired.
† 3. Adorned, decked. Obs.
c. 1325. E. E. Allit. P., B. 114. Ay þe best byfore & bryȝtest atyred.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour, 39. Riche atyred of perles and presious stones.
4. Venery and Her. Furnished with horns.
1572. Bossewell, Armorie, II. 59. An hartes heade cabazed d’Or, attyred verte.
1661. Morgan, Sph. Gentry, I. vi. 94. When the horns of a deer are of another colour from the head, it is called Attired.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., x. 62. A stag is attired of his antlers.
5. fig. Wrapped, clothed; adorned, arrayed.
1599. Shaks., Much Ado, IV. i. 146. For my part, I am so attired in wonder, I know not what to say.
1756. Burke, Subl. & B., Wks. 1842, I. 49. The rose and the apple blossom are both beautiful, and the plants that bear them are most engagingly attired.
