Crippled. World English Historical Dictionary

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ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.] Deprived of the use of one’s limbs; lame, disabled; also transf. and fig.: see the verb.

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a. 1300.  Cursor M., 19048 (Cott.). Þar sagh þai lij, A man was criplid in þe parlesi.

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1591.  Percivall, Sp. Dict., Contrecho, weake, cripled.

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1674.  N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 173. It has no crutches to lean its crippled burden on.

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1779–81.  Johnson, L. P., Somervile. If blank verse be not tumid and gorgeous, it is crippled prose.

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1810.  J. Rowley, in Naval Chron., XXV. 162. One of them … had a crippled frigate in tow.

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1864.  Earl Derby, Iliad, I. 712. The crippled Vulcan, matchless architect.

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