mettled

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English

Etymology

From mettle +‎ -ed.

Adjective

mettled (comparative more mettled, superlative most mettled)

(archaic) Having mettle; pithy, spirited
- 1712 (date written), Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. , London: J Tonson, , published 1713, →OCLC, (please specify the page):
  a mettled fellow
- 1834, L E L, chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. , volume III, London: Richard Bentley, , (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 123:
  She looked, and saw one of the most graceful cavaliers that ever reined in a mettled horse.

References

“mettled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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