English edit

Verb edit

paragraphed

  1. simple past and past participle of paragraph
  2. To be made the subject of an article, notice, or announcement, as in a newspaper.
    • 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XXI, in Romance and Reality. [], volume II, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, [], →OCLC, page 313:
      "And all the better for yourself if you never enter the gladiatorial arena of public life: you will sacrifice time, health, and talents; you will be paragraphed—probably pelted; you will die of an inflammation, or a consumption; and leave it a debatable point to historians, what was the extent of the injury you did your country."