weaponed

1846, Thomas Francis Meagher, The Secession Speech on the “Peace Resolutions” and the Exclusion of the “Nation” Newspaper from the Repeal Association, 26 July, 1846, in Arthur Griffith, editor, Meagher of the Sword, Dublin: M.H. Gill & Son, 1916, p. 36, The man that will listen to reason, let him be reasoned with; but it is the weaponed arm of the patriot that can alone avail against battalioned despotism.

1992, X. J. Kennedy, “Terse Elegy for J. V. Cunningham,” first published in Dark Horses: New Poems; reprinted in In a Prominent Bar in Secaucus: New and Selected Poems, 1955-2007, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007, p. 113, Though with a slash a Pomp’s gut he could slit, On his own work he worked his weaponed wit And penned with patient skill and lore immense Prodigious mind, keen ear, rare common sense, Only those words he could crush down no more Like matter pressured to a dwarf star’s core.