nerved
adjEtymology From nerve + -ed.
1
Obsolete Vigorous, strong; courageous.
- 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.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[oseph] Johnson, […]; and G[eorge,] G[eorge] and J[ohn] Robinson, […], →OCLC, chapter IV, page 70:
2
In compounds Having nerves of a specified kind.
- a strong-nerved hero
3
Biology, Botany, Natural sciences In compounds, Often Having one or more principal veins, especially of a leaf.
- The leaf was palmately nerved.
- Derived terms
- fan-nerved, quinquenerved, rectinerved, septuplinerved, steely-nerved, trinerved, uninerved