nerved

1. participlepastsimple past and past participle of nerve

comparative more nerved · superlative most nerved

1. obsoleteVigorous, strong; courageous.First known use 17th–19th c.

   Beſides, their pains and pleaſures are ſo dependent on outward circumſtances […] that they ſeldom act from the impulſe of a nerved mind, able to chooſe its own purſuit.

   1798, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin, “[Maria: or, The] Wrongs of Woman”, in W[illiam] Godwin, editor, Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. […], volume I, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter IV, page 70

2. in compoundsHaving nerves of a specified kind.First known use 17th c.

   a strong-nerved hero

3. in compoundsoftenbiologyHaving one or more principal veins, especially of a leaf.First known use 18th c.

   The leaf was palmately nerved.