ppl. a. [f. COMBINE v. + -ED.) Coupled, united, conjoined in action or substance; allied, confederated.

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1602.  Shaks., Ham., I. v. 18. Thy knotty and combined locks.

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1603.  Knolles, Hist. Turks (1638), 122. The Christein Princes … with their combined forces.

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1667.  Milton, P. L., IX. 339. Let us not then suspect our happie State … As not secure to single or combin’d.

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1790.  Beatson, Nav. & Mil. Mem., I. 187. Expecting the Combined fleet would bear down upon him.

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1873.  Black, Pr. Thule, xxv. 417. A dinner and supper combined.

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  b.  Performed by agents acting in combination.

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1834.  Gurwood, Wellington’s Disp., I. 12. Combined field movements.

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1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., IV. 117. One vigorous or combined struggle for emancipation.

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1873.  Max Müller, Sc. Relig., 349. The combined work of those who came before him.

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  c.  Resulting from, or produced by, combination. Combined body (Chem.): one formed by the chemical combination of simple substances.

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c. 14[?].  Epiph., in Tundale’s Vis., 117. And oo word combyned of thes tweyn.

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1634.  Sir T. Herbert, Trav., 115. A buzzar or market, which though divided shewes a combined beauty in her separation.

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a. 1831.  A. Knox, Rem. (1844), I. 81. Where a collective and combined effect is to be produced.

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1844.  Stanley, Arnold (1858), I. iv. 167. A combined view of different states.

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1889.  Pall Mall G., 17 Oct., 2/3. The same logic which has created the ‘combined lecturer’ would … create the ‘combined head,’ and, in the university, the ‘combined professor.’

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