engined

1. 1
   adjectivein compounds

   Fitted with a particular number, configuration, or type of engine.

   Similar to describing an animal as four-legged, where the leading number names how many engines are there.

   The airline finally retired its older four-engined jets.

   Modern sports cars tend to be more powerfully engined than their predecessors.

   Note

   An adjective built from the noun engine plus -ed, the way bearded comes from beard, not from the verb behind the past-tense form. It almost always works in combination and takes a hyphen: diesel-engined, four-engined. It does not take more or most itself. When a comparison is needed, it goes on the attached word, as in more powerfully engined.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of engine.

   The builders engined the freighter with a pair of marine diesels.

   The early steamships were engined by specialist firms along the river.

   Note

   The verb behind this form is now dated: to engine a vessel meant to fit it with an engine, said especially of steamships. Its older meanings, to assault with an engine of war or to contrive something, are obsolete, so engined in those senses belongs to old texts. The same spelling also serves the compound adjective, as in diesel-engined, which comes from the noun instead.

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