armchaired

English edit

Etymology edit

armchair +‎ -ed

Adjective edit

armchaired (not comparable)

Furnished with armchairs.
- 1931, The Journal of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District, volume 9:
  Tiers of grandstands with comfortable plush-covered armchaired seats will surround the “Dress Circle,” whilst the “mournful silence of the fells” will be drowned by the droning of the day-trip aeroplanes encircling our summits, from Blackpool and the Isle of Man.
- 2003, Elgy Gillespie, Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981:
  It must be one of the most comfortable dancehalls in Munster, with recent conversions providing an armchaired lounge and balcony, where everybody watched the Rowan and Martin laugh-in on television for half an hour or so.
- 2013, Marilyn Messik, Relatively Strange, page 261:
  The plushly armchaired reception area and busy switchboard was manned, with laxity and a cut-glass accent, by the Hon. Antonia Beresford, who made up in elegance what she lacked in efficiency.
Seated in an armchair.
- 1900, Matilda Betham-Edwards, A Suffolk Courtship, page 58:
  There comfortably armchaired before the fire, a candle and snuffers by his side, in his hand the last number of the Ipswiclz journal, sat Mr. Abel Gooding, the picture of complacency and affected self-immolation.
- 1925, Dorothy Miller Richardson, The Trap, page 205:
  Conversation of this type, comfortably fed and armchaired men discussing in the presence of deferential wives, was the recreation of his less frivolous leisure.
- 2011, John Harding, Florence and Giles, page 6:
  Next door, with a roaring fire nine months of the year, is the housekeeper's sitting room, where you may find Mrs Grouse either armchaired and sewing or desked with a puzzlery of papers, trying, as she says, to 'make head nor tail' of things and — what seems to me contradictory — to make their ends meet.
Based on general knowledge or theory rather than data.
- 1974, James Don Edwards, Accounting education: problems and prospects, page 330:
  Often these problems are sequential in that the student's decision on one problem affects his analysis of the next one. Cases can also be classified by source as armchaired, published source, or field.
- 1989, Gary N. McLean, Muzaffer Ahmad, Bangladesh case studies in business management, page 408:
  An armchaired, or generalized experience, case is created by the author.
- 2017, José María Ariso, Augmented Reality:
  This is a question of empirical tests, not of armchaired reflection (Chalmers 2010).

Verb edit

armchaired

simple past and past participle of armchair