Definition of "lated"
lated
adjective
comparative more lated, superlative most lated
(obsolete) Belated; too late; also, overtaken by night; delayed.
Quotations
Now spurs the lated traveller apace / To gain the timely inn […]
c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene iii]
I am so lated in the world, that I / Have lost my way for ever:
c. 1606–1607, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act III, scene xi]