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Definition of Teased
1. Adjective. Feeling mild pleasurable excitement.
Definition of Teased
1. Verb. (past of tease) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Teased
1. tease [v] - See also: tease
Lexicographical Neighbors of Teased
Literary usage of Teased
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Arts of Design in the United States by William Dunlap, Frank William Bayley, Charles Eliot Goodspeed (1918)
"... and no longer teased the painter with "just going to do it." I remember several
of Mr. Lawrence's landscapes without merit, and a portrait in the ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... safely be played with, and who, though he might be teased into barking and
growling, had no disposition to bite and would not do it without orders". ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"He teased the mitten-blinded cat, Played cross-pins on my uncle's hat, Sang songs,
and told us what befalls In classic Dartmouth's college halls. ..."
4. A course of practical histology by Edward Albert Sharpey- Schafer, Edward Albert Schäfer (1877)
"The other two pieces are examined after forty-eight hours' maceration, small
pieces of the mucous membrane being teased out so as to isolate the epithelium ..."
5. Letters of William Cowper by William Cowper (1912)
"My dear William, I do not know that I should have teased your nerves and spirits
with this disagreeable theme, had not Mr. Newton talked of applying to you ..."
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