Furnished with talents; possessing skill or talents.--Webster. This word is not noticed by any English lexicographer except Knowles.
The London Monthly Magazine (Sept. 1831) blames Mr. Stanley for using this word. "Sir Robert Peel referred it to his American associations, and prayed him never to employ it again, with all the strenuousness of Oxonian adjuration." The Philadelphia Nat. Gaz., in speaking of the above, adds, "Sir Robert was right in protesting against the word, but wrong in his reference. It is of London cockney derivation, and still more employed in Great Britain than in America."
Mr. Bulwer is not yet 'talented,' a pseudo-participle, which no one will use who is not ripe for any atrocity; but he 'progresses' at a fearful rate.--Edinburgh Rev., Vol. LXV. p. 240.