Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Full of mettle or courage; spirited.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire.

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  • adjective Having mettle or high spirits; ardent.

Etymologies

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mettle +‎ -ed

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Examples

  • Sadly by the end of season three the network had mettled so much with the show that it was barely a shade of its former self.

    Friday Top 5: Canceled shows to bring back 2009

  • The motherly, but coarse kindness of Dame Glendinning, and the doating fondness of her old domestic, seemed now the only kind feeling of which she formed the object; and she could not but reflect how little these were to be compared with the devoted attachment of a high-souled youth, whom the least glance of her eye could command, as the high-mettled steed is governed by the bridle of the rider.

    The Monastery 2008

  • Sir Patrick followed leisurely; but, when he was lost to the view of the warders, he spurred his mettled horse, and soon came up with the glover and Catharine, when a conversation ensued which throws light upon some previous passages of this history.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • There was a cast of anxiety on several of their faces, for they had that morning discovered the absence of one of their appointed number; and, in a contest so desperate as was expected, the loss seemed a matter of importance to all save to their high mettled chief,

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • So saying, the damsel raised herself in her saddle, struck her horse lightly with the loose reins, and the mettled animal, already impatient at her delay, and the eager burst of its companions, flew forward at such a pace, as if he had meant to emulate the flight of the hawk, and of the prey he pursued.

    Anne of Geierstein 2008

  • But I dare say that kind-hearted sovereign would not deem that an old woman did him, much injury if she leaned back in her arm-chair, just in such a twilight as this, and thought of the high-mettled men, whose sense of duty called them to arms against his grandfather; and how, in a cause which they deemed that of their rightful prince and country,

    My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

  • Well was it that night for Mowbray, that he had always piqued himself on his horses, and that the animal on which he was then mounted was as sure-footed and sagacious as he was mettled and fiery.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • But I dare say that kind-hearted sovereign would not deem that an old woman did him, much injury if she leaned back in her arm-chair, just in such a twilight as this, and thought of the high-mettled men, whose sense of duty called them to arms against his grandfather; and how, in a cause which they deemed that of their rightful prince and country,

    My Aunt Margaret's Mirror 2008

  • More high-mettled warriors never rode in such lordly wise to the land of any king; they had whatever they listed, both of weapons and of weeds.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

  • These hard toils later brought the high-mettled warriors pain.

    The Nibelungenlied 2007

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