a. Obs. [f. TEXT sb.1 and v. + -ED.]
1. Skilled or learned in ‘texts’ or authors. rare.
(In this sense texted wel (v.r. text wel) appears in one group of Chaucer MSS., where another has textuel. The latter was prob. the original reading, but the change in some MSS. perh. implies that texted was known.)
14[?]. Chaucer’s Manciple’s T., 131 (Harl. MS.). But for I am a man not texted wel [so Corp.; Lansd. texed, Petw. text; 3 MSS. textuel] I wil not telle of textes neuer a del. Ibid., 212. But as I sayd, I am nought tixted wel [Corp., Petw., Lansd. text; 3 MSS. textuel, -eel, tixt-].
2. Written in text-hand or text-letters; engrossed.
1620. Dekker, Dreame, 1. They beg nothing, the texted pastbord talkes all; and if nothing be giuen, nothing is spoken.
1650–66. Wharton, Poems, Wks. (1683), 340. To write Custodes in a Texted-hand.
1695. Lond. Gaz., No. 3125/4. Texted Indentures for Attorneys.
