nerved

From nerve + -ed.

nerved

1. simple past and past participle of nerve

nerved (comparative more nerved, superlative most nerved)

1. (obsolete) Vigorous, strong; courageous. [17th–19th c.]
   • 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:

     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.

2. (in combination) Having nerves of a specified kind. [from 17th c.]

   a strong-nerved hero

3. (botany, often in combination) Having one or more principal veins, especially of a leaf. [from 18th c.]

   The leaf was palmately nerved.

• Denver, Verden, revend, vender