ppl. a. [f. prec. vb. + -ED1.] In senses corresp. to various trans. senses of the verb.
1. a. Saturated or covered with sweat. b. Exuded as or like sweat.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. iii. 81. Sancho should have rode him about the grounds,… and then tied him (well cloath’d) to the Racks, and some three or foure houres after, refreshed his sweated body with a mesh.
a. 1711. Ken, Psyche, Poet. Wks. 1721, IV. 181. Bath’d in a Purple Flood Of sweated Blood.
1900. [see SWEAT v. 10 d].
2. Employed in very hard or excessive work at very low wages; oppressively overworked and underpaid; also said of the labor so imposed or exacted.
1883. Nonconf. & Indep., 28 Dec., 1177/1. [In the outfitting trade] the sweaters themselves are only just one remove above the sweated.
1889. S. Webb, in Contemp. Rev., Dec., 880. A low type of ‘sweated’ and overworked labour is employed at starvation wages.
1894. Westm. Gaz., 2 May, 2/3. The state of things described by Kingsley still remains in the lower strata of these sweated industries.
3. Of gold coins: Lightened by friction or attrition.
1869. Latest News, 29 Aug., 8. To get rid of more than 2,000 ‘sweated’ sovereigns per week without exciting an inconvenient amount of attention.
