carbuncled

From carbuncle +‎ -ed.

carbuncled (comparative more carbuncled, superlative most carbuncled)

1. Set with carbuncles (red precious stones).
   • c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:

     He has deserved it [armour], were it carbuncled / Like holy Phoebus' car.

2. Affected with a carbuncle or carbuncles (red sores, pimples or blotches)
   • 1661, Alexander Brome, “Song VI”, in Songs and other Poems:

     a carbuncled face

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