accouter

present singular third person accouters · participle present accoutering · participle past accoutered · past accoutered · alternative Commonwealth accoutre

1. transitiveTo furnish with dress or equipments, especially those for military service.

   Vpon the word, / Accoutred as I was, I plunged in,

   1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii], page 110, column 2

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   […] Ile hold thee any wager / When we are both accoutered like yong men, / Ile proue the prettier fellow of the two, […]

   c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv], page 177, column 1

   For this, in rags accoutered, are they seen, / And made the may-game of the public spleen?

   1693, John Dryden, “The Third Satire of Perseus”, in Walter Scott, editor, The works of John Dryden, volume 13, published 1808, page 235

   Both while he trod the earth in humblest guise / Accoutred with his burthen and his staff;

   1814, William Wordsworth, “The Solitary”, in The Excursion

   There is a leader—there is usually a leader when men leave their established perimeters—and today it is Quinn Davies, a tanned, open-faced man accoutered with artifacts of a Native American ancestry he wishes he possessed.

   2022, Jennifer Egan, “What the Forest Remembers”, in The Candy House

   Synonyms: equip, attire, array, address, apparel, array, attire, beclothe