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ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]

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  † 1.  Oppressed or hurt in spirit; distressed, troubled, annoyed, vexed (with, at). Obs. replaced by grieved.

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c. 1350.  Will. Palerne, 266. Goþ til him swiþe · lest he agreved wex.

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c. 1385.  Chaucer, Leg. G. Wom., 345. A God ne sholde nat be thus agreved, But of hys deitee he shal be stable.

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1477.  Earl Rivers (Caxton), Dictes, 77. He was gretely agreued with suche as helde the same opynyon.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, II. xi. 111. Grete Goddis semand with Troy aggreuit.

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1557.  Surrey, Æneid, II. (R.), 820. And great gods eke aggreued with our town.

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1577.  trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 561. Agreeued at, or ashamed of the thing that they haue done.

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  2.  Injured or wronged in one’s rights, relations or position; injuriously affected by the action of any one; having cause of grief or offence, having a grievance (at, by).

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1590.  Marlowe, 1st Pt. Tamburl., I. i. 1. Brother Cosroe, I find myself agrieved.

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1643.  Milton, Divorce (1851), ii. 25. The agrieved person shall doe more manly, to be extraordinary and singular in clayming the due right whereof he is frustrated.

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1790.  Cowper, Iliad, I. 757. My mother, be advised, and though aggrieved Yet patient.

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1859.  T. Lewin, Invas. Brit., 61. The Britons were as much the aggrieved as the aggressive party.

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1870.  Bowen, Logic, ix. 293. The Catholics had a right to feel aggrieved that these laws should be permitted to remain in the statute book.

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  † 3.  Injured physically; hurt, afflicted. Obs.

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1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Sprain, Rub and chafe it upon the aggrieved place.

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1783.  P. Pott, Chirurg., Wks. II. 278. What disorders the aggrieved part is naturally liable to.

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  † 4.  Aggravated, exaggerated. Obs.

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1513.  More, Richd. III., Wks. 1557, 62/1. Smal matters agreuid with heinouse names.

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1559.  Myrroure for Mag., Gloc., xxi. 1. Aggreued was also this latter offence, With former matter.

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