Definition of "armchaired"

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.

1931, The Journal of the Fell and Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District, volume 9

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.

2003, Elgy Gillespie, Changing the Times: Irish Women Journalists 1969-1981

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.

2013, Marilyn Messik, Relatively Strange, page 261

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.

1900, Matilda Betham-Edwards, A Suffolk Courtship, page 58

Conversation of this type, comfortably fed and armchaired men discussing in the presence of deferential wives, was the recreation of his less frivolous leisure.

1925, Dorothy Miller Richardson, The Trap, page 205

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.

2011, John Harding, Florence and Giles, page 6

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.

1974, James Don Edwards, Accounting education: problems and prospects, page 330

An armchaired, or generalized experience, case is created by the author.

1989, Gary N. McLean, Muzaffer Ahmad, Bangladesh case studies in business management, page 408

This is a question of empirical tests, not of armchaired reflection (Chalmers 2010).

2017, José María Ariso, Augmented Reality