prestiged

adj

1. Of high prestige.

   “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.”

   “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!”

   “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.”

   “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.”

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

2. (in-compounds)Of prestige.

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

   “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.”

   “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

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of prestige