lated

late +‎ -ed

lated (comparative more lated, superlative most lated)

1. (obsolete) Belated; too late; delayed, overtaken by night.
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:

     Now spurs the lated traveller apace
     To gain the timely inn […]

   • c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene xi]:

     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.

   • 1812–1818, Lord Byron, “Canto 1”, in Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage. , London: John Murray,, stanza 72:

     Long ere the first loud trumpet’s note is heard,
     Ne vacant space for lated wight is found:

• lated in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• Adlet, DELTA, Delta, adlet, atled, dalet, dealt, delta, taled