v. Obs. [f. BE- + JADE v.]
1. trans. To weary, tire out.
1620. Melton, Astrolog., 14. He had so bejaded and tyred mine eares.
1641. Milton, Animadv., Wks. (1851), 240. Spare your selfe, lest you bejade the good galloway, your owne opiniaster wit.
2. To make a jade of.
1705. Hickeringill, Priest-cr., II. vi. 61. Some Women … are Skitish, and will not suffer themselves tamely to be Rid and Bejaded by ne’re a Priest of them all.
Hence Bejaded ppl. a.
1687. Elegy, in Cleveland’s Wks., 284. Jogg still as things bejaded ride in black.
1694. South, 12 Serm., II. 197. A tired, languishing, and be-jaded Devotion.
