ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Made sweet, in any sense: see prec. and SWEET a.
1567. Drant, Horace, Ep. Arte Poet., B j. Plautus rymes and tothesume sweetned vayne.
1616. W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. ii. 475. Where Philomela and such sweetned throates, Are for the mastry tuning various notes.
1682. N. O., Boileaus Lutrin, I. 174. The Sweetned Prelate rises from the Table.
a. 1708. Beveridge, Thes. Theol. (1710) III. 250. If he casts darts infected with pleasure, faith shews they are sweetened poisons.
1797. Mrs. Berkeley, Poems G. M. Berkeley, Pref. p. cccx. Those who have not a penny to buy tobacco, snuff, or a little two shilling tea, and sweetened sand, called sugar, to season it.
1890. Retrospect Med., CII. 39. Bromoform is conveniently administered suspended in sweetened water.