traced
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Trace \Trace\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. traced; p. pr. & vb. n. tracing.] [OF. tracier, F. tracer, from (assumed) LL. tractiare, fr.L. tractus, p. p. of trahere to draw. Cf. Abstract, Attract, Contract, Portratt, Tract, Trail, Train, Treat. ]
1.To mark out; to draw or delineate with marks; especially, to copy, as a drawing or engraving, by following the lines and marking them on a sheet superimposed, through which they appear; as, to trace a figure or an outline; a traced drawing. [1913 Webster]
Some faintly traced features or outline of the mother and the child, slowly lading into the twilight of the woods.— Hawthorne.[1913 Webster]
2.To follow by some mark that has been left by a person or thing which has preceded; to follow by footsteps, tracks, or tokens. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
You may trace the deluge quite round the globe.— T. Burnet.[1913 Webster]
I feel thy power . . . to trace the ways Of highest agents.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
3.Hence, to follow the trace or track of. [1913 Webster]
How all the way the prince on footpace traced.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
4.To copy; to imitate. [1913 Webster]
That servile path thou nobly dost decline, Of tracing word, and line by line.— Denham.[1913 Webster]
5.To walk over; to pass through; to traverse. [1913 Webster]
We do tracethis alley up and down.— Shak.[1913 Webster]