ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED1.] Made sweet, in any sense: see prec. and SWEET a.

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1567.  Drant, Horace, Ep. Arte Poet., B j. Plautus rymes and tothesume sweetned vayne.

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1616.  W. Browne, Brit. Past., II. ii. 475. Where Philomela and such sweetned throates, Are for the mastry tuning various notes.

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1682.  N. O., Boileau’s Lutrin, I. 174. The Sweetned Prelate rises from the Table.

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a. 1708.  Beveridge, Thes. Theol. (1710) III. 250. If he casts darts infected with pleasure, faith shews they are sweetened poisons.

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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.

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1890.  Retrospect Med., CII. 39. Bromoform is conveniently administered suspended in sweetened water.

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