ppl. a. [f. BELFRY + -ED2.] Having a belfry.
1827. Charlotte A. Eaton, Vittoria Colonna, I. v. 122. A lordly villa or a belfried convent crowning each eminence.
1841. Lady F. Hastings, Poems, 150.
| With voice of power, from belfried tower, | |
| Life’s joys and sorrows shall proclaim. |
1847. Tupper, Hactenus (1848), 84.
| Rejoice, ye happy people, | |
| And peal the changing chime | |
| From every belfried steeple | |
| In symphony sublime. |
1857. Mrs. Gaskell, C. Brontë (ed. 2), I. 5. Parsonage, church, and belfried school-house, form three sides of an irregular oblong.
