ppl. a. [f. STAB v. + -ED1.]
1. Wounded by stabbing.
1599. B. Jonson, Cynthia’s Rev., V. iv. S’foot, he makes a face like a stab’d Lucrece.
1884. ‘Vernon Lee,’ C’tess Albany, iii. 28. The Pretender’s bride must often have met a knot of people conveying a stabbed man … to the nearest barber or apothecary.
Comb. 1612. Chapman, Rev. Bussy d’Ambois, I. ii. 75. These tortur’d fingers and these stabb’d-through arms Keep that law in their wounds yet unobserv’d, And ever shall.
† b. Of a wound: Produced by stabbing. Obs.
1653. T. Brugis, Vade Mecum (ed. 2), 57. It is good in wounds either incised, contused, or stabbed.
2. Perforated with punctured holes.
1862. Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit., II. No. 6384, Stabbed iron for malt-kiln plates.
3. Bookbinding. (See STAB v. 6.)
