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English
Etymology
From nerve + -ed.
Verb
nerved
- simple past and past participle of nerve
Adjective
nerved (comparative more nerved, superlative most nerved)
- (obsolete) Vigorous, strong; courageous.
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 Johnson, ; and G[eorge,] G and J 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.
- a strong-nerved hero
- (botany, often in combination) Having one or more principal veins, especially of a leaf.
The leaf was palmately nerved.
Derived terms
Translations
having nerves of a specified kind
botany: having one or more principal veins
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