mettled

English

Etymology

From mettle +‎ -ed.

Adjective

mettled (comparative more mettled, superlative most mettled)

1. (archaic) Having mettle; pithy, spirited
   • 1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, (please specify the page):

     a mettled fellow

   • 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XV, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 123:

     She looked, and saw one of the most graceful cavaliers that ever reined in a mettled horse.

References

• “mettled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.