[f. STIR v. + -ED1.] Moved, agitated, excited, etc.: see the various senses of the verb. Also with up: see STIR v. 16.
1483. Cath. Angl., 365/1. Stird (v.r. Styrryde), motus, agitatus.
1538. Elyot, Dict., Percitus, styrred. Ibid. (1545), Concitatus, stered, prouoked, meued.
1577. Kendall, Flowers of Epigr., 65. Is this (at last quoth he) Of all your sturred strife the cause?
1593. Q. Eliz., Boeth., II. met. ii. 24. Sandz such store by raging flawes as stured sea turnes vp.
1607. Topsell, Four-f. Beasts, 307. He inclined him [his horse] first of al to lay away his stirred and angry minde.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., 448. [Cabbages] may be … transplanted into a very rich and well stirred Mould.
1827. Steuart, Planter’s Guide (1828), 496. Let a trench then be … cut as deep nearly as the depth of the trenched ground, or stirred earth, of which the orchard-soil has been originally formed.
1860. Ellicott, Life our Lord, iv. 187. A storm of wind bursts upon the lake, and the stirred-up waters beat in upon the boat.
1862. Meredith, Mod. Love, xlii. 74. Thoughts black as death, Like a stirr’d pool in sunshine break.
