ppl. a. [f. SMEAR v. + -ED1.]
1. In contemptuous use: Anointed.
1550. Bale, Apol., 17 b. The popes smered presthod.
1554. Hilarie, Resurr. Masse, A viij. My smered Chaplens … I make them to be called Syrs euery one.
1583. Stubbes, Anat. Abus. (1882), II. 70. Being a greasie priest, and smered prelate.
2. Dirtied or soiled by smearing; bedaubed.
1584–7. Greene, Carde of Fancie, Wks. (Grosart), IV. 62. Pasiphæ preferred a Bull before a King, and Venus a smeered Smith before Mars the God of battaile.
1621. G. Sandys, Ovid’s Met., V. (1626), 92. Nor could he fall; but … Hung by the hand against the smeared post.
1684. A. Symson, Descr. Galloway (1823), 72. The most part of their laid-wool, call’d in other parts smear’d wool, is … so called, because … they melt butter and tar together, and therewith they … smear their sheep.
1795. in Robertson, Agric. Perth (1799), 533. The smeared kind at 7s. or 8s. per stone; and their white wool from 8s. to 10s.
1840. Barret, Water Colour Painting, 16. While the smeared part is being cleaned with India-rubber.
1865. Dickens, Mut. Fr., II. xv. Holding out his smeared hand.
b. Smeared dagger, a species of moth.
1883. W. Saunders, Insects Inj. Fruits, 325. The Smeared Dagger, Apatella oblinita.… This peculiarity being partly obliterated in this species, it has received the common name of the ‘smeared dagger.’
3. Laid on in a smearing manner.
1820. Keats, Isabella, li. The smeared loam With tears, as chilly as a dripping well, She drench’d away.
