Sweetened, in a way

Usage examples of honied.

There were little manuals in questions and answers, pamphlets of aggressive tone after the manner of Monsieur de Maistre, and certain novels in rose-coloured bindings and with a honied style, manufactured by troubadour seminarists or penitent blue-stockings.

And I will bear along with you Leaves dropping down the honied dew, With oaten pipes, as sweet, as new.

The honied wetness of her mouth and the spicy, roselike fragrance of her hair and skin beckoned him to savor and claim more of her, all of her.

Gerard writes: 'The roots of the Male Fern, being taken in the weight of half an ounce, driveth forth long flat worms, as Dioscorides writeth, being drunke in mede or honied water, and more effectually if it be given with two scruples, or two third parts of a dram of scammonie, or of black hellebore: they that will use it, must first eat garlicke.