ppl. a. [f. SWADDLE v. + -ED1.] Wrapped in swaddling clothes.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 149. The mothers dugge doth serue the childe, and still attendeth vppon the swathled babe.
1587. A. Day, Daphnis & Chloe (1890), 11. The sheepe that whilome sucked the swatheled impe.
1712. W. Rogers, Voy., 352. They look like a swadled Child, with its Arms at liberty.
1821. Combe, Syntax, Wife, v. So careful did the Dame appear To guard from cold her swaddled dear.
1873. Miss Broughton, Nancy, III. 59. The year is no longer a swaddled baby, it is shooting up into a tall stripling.
1911. Petrie, Revolutions of Civilisation, iii. 73. In 1512, the style has become entirely stiff and wooden, as in the brass of Anne Astley…, with the swaddled twins in her arms.
