deeden?

[Joel S. Berson]

In a 1768 broadside poem on Pope's Day, "he" being the (effigy of the) pope:

If that his deeden Self could see Himself so turn'd to Fun: In Rage
He'd tear out his Pope's Eyes, and scratch his Rev'rend bum.

Is "deeden" a ppl. adj. of dee (v) = damned?  OED2 sense b.

Joel

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