ppl. a. [f. STAGE sb. and v. + -ED.]
1. † a. That acts on or as on a stage. Obs.
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippas Van. Artes, xxi. 32 b. [This Histrionical Rhetorike] is yet obserued of some staged Freers [à scenicis aliquot fraterculis].
1586. J. Hooker, Giraldus Hist. Irel., Pref. in Holinshed. But yet as a staged man can not alwaies dissemble and cloke himself, so this man, who [etc.].
b. Of a play: That is put upon the stage.
1904. N. Howard, Savonarola, Scenes, The Author has permitted himself a fuller development, both of Theme and Character, than the staged Drama would require.
2. Of a building: Having a series of floors or stories one above another.
1884. W. Armstrong, trans. G. Perrot & C. Chipiez Hist. Art Chaldæa & Assyria, I. iv. 369. Herodotus declares plainly that it [i.e., the temple of Bel] was a staged tower.
1885. Athenæum, 21 March, 381/3. The lofty, staged towers of the Euphrates valley must have been glorious to behold.
3. Of feathers: ? Arranged in order of length.
1828. Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 208. Wings with the five first feathers staged; the sixth or seventh longest.