stelled

adj — 2 senses

stelled

adj

Etymology From stell (“to set, place, fix”).

1

Dialectal, Obsolete Firmly placed or fixed.

  • The sea , with such a storm as his bare head In hell-black night endur'd , would have buoy'd up, And quench'd the stelled firesc. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene vii]:
2

Obsolete Starry.

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