posied

[ poh-zeed ]

adjective

1. decorated with or containing flowers:

   In our elegant tea room, you can enjoy relaxing on our pretty, posied upholstery while you eat hot buttered scones and delicious finger sandwiches.

   They gazed in delight at the posied meadow.

2. Archaic. inscribed with a motto or legend.

Word History and Origins

Origin of posied¹

First recorded in 1725–35; posy ( def ) + -ed ²( def )

Example Sentences

Aviva is posied to sell its US life division.

From The Guardian

X. So speaking, they pursue the pebbly walk That leads to the white porch the Sunday throng, Hand-coupled urchins in restrain�d talk, And anxious pedagogue that chastens wrong, And posied churchwarden with solemn stalk, And gold-bedizen'd beadle flames along, And gentle peasant clad in buff and green, Like a meek cowslip in the spring serene; XI.

From Project Gutenberg

Then, suddenly sweet as a draught through a fever-tainted room, the squalid city freshened into jocund, luxuriant suburbs with rollicking tennis courts, and flaming yellow forsythia blossoms, and green velvet lawns prematurely posied with pale exotic hyacinths and great scarlet splotches of lusty tulips.

From Project Gutenberg

And the White Linen Nurse had waded barefoot through too many posied country pastures to experience any ordinary city thrill over the sight of a single blade of grass pushing scarily through a crack in the pavement, or puny, concrete-strangled maple tree flushing wanly to the smoky sky.

From Project Gutenberg

Just as the chill of winter is forgotten in the glory of the springtide, and just as the child in the posied meadow sports in unconsciousness of the nipping frost that a few weeks before forced the tears to his eyes, so Amanda, playful, gladsome, and full of wonder in the new world in which she found herself, knew no more her old self, nor remembered any more her old life.

From Project Gutenberg