miseased

comparative more miseased · superlative most miseased

1. obsoleteSuffering, in pain; having discomfort or misery; troubled.

   Poore people and Subjectes, both miseased, & scandalized.

   1633, William Guild, THE VMBLE ADDRESSE both of Church, and Poore, to the Sacred Majestie of their dread Soveraigne, CHARLES, Great Britannes Monarch […], Aberdene [i.e., Aberdeen]: Edward Raban

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   Yet foꝛaſmuch as it muſt of neceſſitie be knowne, what is vertue, & vice: beꝛore a mā can well, & wiſely liue, embꝛacing the one, and eſchewing the other: eyther to make ſoūde the ſicke minde (incaſe it be miſeaſed, & hath a will to bee relieued) take this doctrine, as a medicine: oꝛels to cōfirme the holle: that is to mean: incaſe you haue been well, & honeſtly trayned vp: moꝛe perfitely to perceiue the path of good maners: wherin you may walk with entire delite, and cōme to & honour of a laudable life.

   1556, Marcvs Tullius Ciceroes [i.e., Cicero], “The preface to the reader”, in Nicholas Grimalde [i.e., Nicholas Grimald], transl., Marcvs Tullius Ciceroes Thre Bokes of Duties to Marcus His ſonne, London

   Upon which miſericoꝛde followeth pite, in perfoꝛming and fulfilling of charitable woꝛkes of mercie, helping & comfoꝛting him that is miseased.

   1598 [a. 1401], Geffrey Chavcer [i.e., Geoffrey Chaucer], “The Parſons tale”, in The Workes of Our Antient and Learned Engliſh Poet, Geffrey Chavcer Newly Printed, London, folio 110