rare. (Only in pa. pple. Towned.) [f. prec. sb.] trans. a. To furnish with towns. b. To make into or constitute (a community) a town.
1585. R. Lane, Lett., in Hakluyt, Voy. (1600), III. 254. The continent is of an huge and vnknowen greatnesse, and very well peopled and towned.
1633. P. Fletcher, Purple Isl., II. xv. With many a citie grac’t, and fairly town’d.
1897. I. O. Reichel, in Trans. Devon. Assoc., XXIX. 458. There were reeves of various kinds … the town-reeve in a ‘towned’ village.
