ppl. a. [f. STAGE sb. and v. + -ED.]

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  1.  † a. That acts on or as on a stage. Obs.

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1569.  J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, xxi. 32 b. [This Histrionical Rhetorike] is yet obserued of some staged Freers [à scenicis aliquot fraterculis].

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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.].

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  b.  Of a play: That is put upon the stage.

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1904.  N. Howard, Savonarola, Scenes, The Author has … permitted himself a fuller development, both of Theme and Character, than the staged Drama would require.

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  2.  Of a building: Having a series of floors or stories one above another.

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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.

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1885.  Athenæum, 21 March, 381/3. The lofty, staged towers of the Euphrates valley … must have been glorious to behold.

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  3.  Of feathers: ? Arranged in order of length.

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1828.  Stark, Elem. Nat. Hist., I. 208. Wings with the five first feathers staged; the sixth or seventh longest.

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