Lated
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Lated is an adjective meaning (obsolete) Belated; too late; also, overtaken by night; delayed.
Meaning
(obsolete) Belated; too late; also, overtaken by night; delayed.
Example Sentences
I am so lated in the world, that I / Have lost my way for ever:
Now spurs the lated traveller apace / To gain the timely inn […]
Come when my lated Sheep, at night return; / And crown the silent Hours, and stop the rosy Morn.
Long ere the first loud trumpet’s note is heard, / Ne vacant space for lated wight is found: […]
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tardy, dilatory, late-blooming, lateened, laggardly, lethargied.
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