wrought

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WROUGHT, preterit tense and participle passive of work. raut. 1. Worked; formed by work or labor; as wrought iron. 2. Effected; performed. She hath wrought a good work upon me. Matthew 26:10. 3. Effected; produced. He wrought the public safety. A great change was wrought in his mind. This wrought the greatest confusion int he unbelieving Jews. 4. Used in labor. The elders of that city shall take a heifer that hath not been wrought with. Deuteronomy 21:3. 5. Worked; driven; as infection wrought out of the body. [Not used.] 6. Actuated. Vain Morat, by his own rashness wrought-- 7. Worked; used; labored in. The mine is still wrought 8. Formed; fitted. He that hath wrought us for the self-same thing is God. 2 Corinthians 5:5. 9. Guided; managed. [Not used.] 10. Agitated; disturbed. My dull brain was wrought with things forgot. WROUGHT on or upon, influenced; prevailed on. His mind was wrought upon by divine grace. WROUGHT to or up to, excited; inflamed. Their minds were wrought up to a violent passion. She was wrought up to the tenderest emotion of pity.
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