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Adjective

lated

1. (obsolete) Belated; too late; delayed, overtaken by night.
   • circa 1605 William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act III, Scene 3,

     Now spurs the lated traveller apace

     To gain the timely inn […]

   • circa 1606 William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act III, Scene 11,

     I am so lated in the world, that I

     Have lost my way for ever:

   • 1697, John Dryden (translator), The Works of Virgil Containing his Pastorals, Georgics and Aeneis, London: Jacob Tonson, The Seventh Pastoral, p. 33,

     Come when my lated Sheep, at night return;

     And crown the silent Hours, and stop the rosy Morn.

   • 1812, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, London: John Murray, 3rd edition, Canto 1, Stanza 72, p. 44,

     Long ere the first loud trumpet’s note is heard,

     Ne vacant space for lated wight is found:

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