[f. TAPER sb.1 + -ED2.] Lighted by, or accompanied by the use of, tapers.
1745. Warton, Pleas. Melanch., 196. The taper’d choir, at the late hour of pray’r.
1792. S. Rogers, Pleas. Mem., II. 325. The chanted hymn, the tapered rite.
18[?]. Campbell, On Poland, 42. The taper’d pomp—the hallelujah’s swell.
