Crowded. World English Historical Dictionary

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ppl. a. [f. CROWD v.1 + -ED.]

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  1.  Filled with or thronged by a crowd.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xvii. (R.). His crowded wharfs, and people-pest’red shores.

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1637.  Bastwick, Litany, I. 5. They cry out in open Courts and the Crowdedst assemblies.

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1727–46.  Thomson, Summer, 65. And from the crouded fold, in order, drives His flock.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 4. Sixteen hundred substantial burghers well armed … kept order in the crowded streets.

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  2.  Gathered, pressed or clustered closely together.

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1725.  Pope, Odyss., X. 106. Our eager sailors … bound within the port their crouded fleet.

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1823.  W. Scoresby, Jrnl. Whale-Fishery, 240. We doubled the western point among very crowded ice.

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1888.  Pall Mall Gaz., 2 July, 11/1. There was a crowded audience each night.

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  Hence Crowdedly adv., Crowdedness.

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1800.  Caledonian Mercury, 2 Oct., 2/3. The festival in honour of the foundation of the Republic was crowdedly attended.

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1846.  Dana, Zooph. (1848), 131. Exterior crowdedly papillose.

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1823.  Blackw. Mag., XIII. 698. The pettiness and crowdedness of its [Rome’s] ruins.

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