lated

English

Etymology

late +‎ -ed

Adjective

lated (comparative more lated, superlative most lated)

1. (obsolete) Belated; too late; delayed, overtaken by night.
   • c. 1605 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 3,^[1]

     Now spurs the lated traveller apace

     To gain the timely inn […]

   • c. 1606 William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene 11,^[2]

     I am so lated in the world, that I

     Have lost my way for ever:

   • 1697, John Dryden (translator), The Works of Virgil Containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis, London: Jacob Tonson, The Seventh Pastoral, p. 33,^[3]

     Come when my lated Sheep, at night return;

     And crown the silent Hours, and stop the rosy Morn.

   • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, 3rd edition, Canto 1, Stanza 72, p. 44,^[4]

     Long ere the first loud trumpet’s note is heard,

     Ne vacant space for lated wight is found:

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lated”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• DELTA, Delta, atled, dalet, dealt, delta, taled