esquired

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -aɪə(ɹ)d

Adjective

esquired (not comparable)

1. (dated) Using the title or honorific of esquire.
   • 1822, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, volume 12, page 83:

     Here's to all the rest, both esquired and anonymous, / May they all in their times find their own Hieronymus ;

   • 1824, Lord Byron, Don Juan, Canto the Sixteenth, LXIX:

     All country gentlemen, esquired or knighted, / May drop in without cards, and take their station / At the full board, and sit alike delighted / With fashionable wines and conversation;

Verb

esquired

1. simple past and past participle of esquire