daggered

From dagger +‎ -ed.

daggered (not comparable)

1. Wearing or carrying a dagger.
   • 1845 July 22, [Cassius Marcellus Clay], “Thomas Metcalfe Again!”, in The True American, volume I, number 8, Lexington, Ky., page [3], column 1:

     It is true we wear a “dagger,” but we deny ever having been in our life an aggressor upon any man; so that if we be a “daggered assassin,” we ask the Governor to produce the proofs!

   • 1848 May 10, An Adopted Citizen [pseudonym], “Empiricism in Boston”, in J[erome] V[an] C[rowninsfield] Smith, editor, The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal, volume XXXVIII, number 15, Boston, Mass.: David Clapp, […], page 307:

     Yet in the plenitude of its philanthropy it allows the worse than daggered assassin to enter the home of our adopted citizens, and administer that bane which deprives them of health and life.

   • 1982, Adam Corby, The Divine Queen (Canto Two of The Doom-Quest of Ara-Karn; a dark romance), New York, N.Y.: Timescape Books, →ISBN, page 39:

     Then the dream returned to her, like some daggered thief.

   • 2007, Nathaniel Washup, A New Beginning to an Old Ending: Book of Airik, Bloomington, Ind., Milton Keynes, Bucks: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 57:

     The would be assassin charged the woman. Omniheckren’s minion would not have caught the daggered man in time enough had the young Agnarogian woman not stilled time itself to prevent the attack.

   • 2017, K[evin] W[ayne] Jeter, Grim Expectations (The George Dower Trilogy; 3), Nottingham, Notts.: Angry Robot, →ISBN, page 36:

     Had we really two or so years together, before the indulgences of her previous existence caught up with her, like a daggered assassin who treads only a step behind?

daggered

1. simple past and past participle of dagger