nerved
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Verb[edit]
nerved
- simple past and past participle of nerve
Adjective[edit]
nerved (comparative more nerved, superlative most nerved)
- (obsolete) Vigorous, strong; courageous. [17th–19th c.]
- 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:
- 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.
- (in combination) Having nerves of a specified kind. [from 17th c.]
- a strong-nerved hero
- (botany, often in combination) Having one or more principal veins, especially of a leaf. [from 18th c.]
- The leaf was palmately nerved.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
having nerves of a specified kind
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botany: having one or more principal veins
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