zealedhttp://www.oed.com/dictionary/zealed_adj%3Ftab%3Dmeaning_and_usezealed, adj.
Revised 2018

† zealedadjective

Obsolete. rare.
  1. 1679–1903
    Zealous; demonstrating or characterized by zeal. Cf. over-zealed adj.
    In quot. 1679, apparently as a correction of an earlier typographical error (cf. the variant reading); however, the original reading is likely to have been sealed, in sense ‘sworn, committed’ (cf. sealed adj. 1c).
    1. 1679
      You might have done, but for that zeald [1647 (ed. 1) scale] religion You women bear to swownings.
      Loves Pilgramage (new edition) iv. i. 85/2 in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher, 50 Comedies & Trag.
    2. 1712
      It is of the Duty and Charity of Christian Princes to be mindful and zealed for the most Holy Gospel of God and Apostolical Religion.
      translation of Abstr. Letters Patent Edward VI to Foreign Churches London in Apol. French Refugees in Ireland (end matter)
    3. 1821
      Mr Seybert told me he was one of the most zealed for the success of a thing which he had reckognised the utility and goodness.
      M. D. Fretageot, Letter 22 July in J. M. Elliott, Partnership for Posterity (1994) i. 132
    4. 1903
      One of the zealed correspondents of our Museum, communicated me the other day some observations..on living animals.
      Notes from Leyden Mus. vol. 23 183

Originally published as part of the entry for zeal, v.

zealed, adj. was revised in June 2018.

zealed, adj. was last modified in July 2023.