[f. STRAY v.2 + -ED1.] That has gone astray. lit. and fig.
1529. Supplic. to King (E.E.T.S.), 28. To call agayne the strayed shepe in-to the ryght waye.
1590. H. R., Defiance to Fortune, B 3 b. Searching for the straied beastes of his saide maister Miller.
1615. Brathwait, Strappado, 10. Yea I know som which may lament with thee For their straide daughters.
1634. Milton, Comus, 503. I came not here on such a trivial toy As a stray’d Ewe.
1653. H. Cogan, trans. Pinto’s Trav., xv. 51. He had slain at times in strayed Vessels above an hundred Portugals.
1707. Ken, in W. L. Bowles, Life (1831), II. 296. I rejoice that my strayed sheep are reduced under his government.
1895. Zangwill, Master, II. ix. 233. A strayed sparrow hopped dolefully … on the floating platform.
1897. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 1033. Kidney, spleen, pleura, and the urinary passages have sheltered strayed specimens of these parasites at times.
