Definition of "full-armed" [full-armed]

• Completely armed.

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Nouvelle Heloise, — in short, the thought of three lands crowded with confused images that girlish head, august in its cold guilelessness, its native chastity, but from which there sprang full-armed, brilliant, sincere, and strong, an overwhelming admiration for genius."
• "It is no great feat I have done, for he was naked and I full-armed."
• "All the self-tortures of doubt and anxiety and imagination and hope and despair that you go through when you are a child, trying to break out of your shell, only to find yourself in the middle of a legion of full-armed emotions against which you have no defense!"