prestiged

English

Etymology

From prestige +‎ -ed.

Adjective

prestiged (comparative more prestiged, superlative most prestiged)

1. Of high prestige.

   Synonym: prestigious

   • 1836, Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte. By M. de Bourrienne, His Private Secretary. To Which Are Now First Added, an Account of the Important Events of the Hundred Days, of Napoleon’s Surrender to the English, and of His Residence and Death at St. Helena. With Anecdotes and Illustrative Notes from All the Most Authentic Sources., volume III, London: Richard Bentley, […], page 23:

     But, as if a curse attended all the enemies of the prestiged Napoleon, Kaminskoy was deranged in his intellects, and a few weeks after he betrayed such symptons^[sic] of downright madness, that he was removed from the command which was then intrusted to the brave and skilful Beningsen—the hero of this, as Blucher had been of the recent Prussian campaign.

   • 1857, Charles Hancock, “God Ever Bless Thee! Through Life’s Varying Scene.”, in Gaieties and Gravities for Holy Days and Holidays, London: Saunders and Otley, […], page 25:

     When years roll on; when waning loves be by, / Or lonely moments foil thy prestiged bliss, / Then take thee comfort from that minstrelsy, / Which left an impress on a page like this!

   • 1859 December 10, Ralph A. Benson, “Bought and Sold”, in Once a Week. An Illustrated Miscellany of Literature, Art, Science, & Popular Information., volume I, number 24, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], page 492:

     If I could I would guess at the soft whisper’d words / That make little souls flutter like poor prison’d birds, / And arm all the feelings in hostile array / E’en to prestiged invaders like Vivian de Grey.

   • 1924, Maurice Thomas Price, Christian Missions and Oriental Civilizations: A Study in Culture Contact; the Reactions of Non-Christian Peoples to Protestant Missions from the Standpoint of Individual and Group Behavior: Outline, Materials, Problems, and Tentative Interpretations, page 226:

     Where group members are loyal, it is enough merely to let them know that such and such beliefs are heretical or are dangerous, especially if those giving the warning are honored or prestiged persons.

   • 1983, Golden Pages of the Cuban Exiles, 1959-1983, page 36:

     Finally, Colonel Carlos Mendieta Montefur, a very prestiged and reputable man who had fought in the Independence War, took the presidency.

   • 2015 December 18, Noisey Staff, “Noisey's Top 20 Danish Premieres of 2015”, in Vice‎, archived from the original on 14 December 2022:

     We've come to expect that prestiged Danish pop duo Cancer will only put out music that's more than palatable.

2. (in combination) Of prestige.
   • 1852 July, Herman Melville, “Book XVIII. Pierre, as a Juvenile Author, Reconsidered.”, in Pierre: Or, The Ambiguities, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, section II, page 359:

     […] the pride of the Gazelle Magazine, on whose flaunting cover his name figured at the head of all contributors—[…] this high-prestiged Pierre—[…]

   • 1973, The Journal of Correctional Work, page 81:

     But regardless of what happens to them subsequently, there still remain some self-styled martyrs in the prison who refuse working on certain low-prestiged and non-remunerative jobs.

   • 1984, Michael Hebbert, Howard Machin, editors, Regionalisation in France, Italy and Spain: Papers Presented at a Seminar on Nation-Region Conflicts in Economic Policy-Making in France, Italy and Spain 9/10 June 1983 at the International Centre for Economics and Related Disciplines, →ISBN, page 65:

     For Italy possesses most of the factors that have been suggested to explain the emergence of ethno-nationalism: linguistic minorities, physically separated regions (Sicily and Sardinia), wide economic disparities between regions, a low-prestiged central bureaucracy and a weak central government.

Verb

prestiged

1. simple past and past participle of prestige

Anagrams

• predigest, Prestidge