ppl. a. [f. as prec. + -ED1.]
1. Stretched out to the full. Of troops, etc.: Spread out.
1552. Huloet, Extended in breadth or length, porrectus.
1625. Markham, Souldiers Accid., 14. Marching in an extended Battayle.
1629. Chapman, Juvenal, 251. The length of his extended limbs.
1778. Earl Pembroke, Mil. Equit., 62. I mean by the extended that trot in which the horse trots out without retaining himself, being quite straight.
1841. Lane, Arab. Nts., I. 127. We rode along in an extended line.
1864. Col. M‘Murdo, in Daily Tel., 12 Sept., 2/3. Extended order simply means skirmishing order.
b. Of an arm, spear, etc.: Outstretched.
1703. Pope, Thebais, 723. The youth surround her with extended spears.
† c. Of a passion: Strained, intensified. Of the voice: Strained. Obs.
1711. Shaftesb., Charac. (1737), II. II. 164. Anger, Revenge, Fear, and other extended Self-Passions.
1727. De Foe, Syst. Magic, I. iv. (1840), 109. And as loud as his utmost extended voice would admit.
2. Drawn out in length in space or time; continued, prolonged.
c. 1450. Burgh, Secrees (E.E.T.S.), 2591. Eeyen longe, and extendid visage, Signe be of malice and Envye.
1737. Pope, Imit. Hor., IV. i. 42. Thee, drest in Fancy’s airy beam, Absent I follow thro’ th’ extended Dream.
1786. W. Gilpin, Mts. & Lakes Cumbrld., II. 8. The vale of Lorton is of the extended kind, running a considerable way between mountains.
1832. Marryat, N. Forster, I. iii. 36. The coast was one extended sheep-walk.
1874. Knight, Dict. Mech., I. 818/2. Extended-letter. (Printing), one having a face broader than usual with a letter of its height.
† b. Extended proportionality: = Continued proportional: see CONTINUED 4 a. Obs.
1570. Billingsley, Euclid, V. def. xx. 136.
3. Enlarged in area; wide-spread, extensive.
1710. Pope, Windsor For., 315. Here … Edward sleeps: Whom not th’ extended Albion could contain.
1779. Forrest, Voy. N. Guinea, 196. The river Curuan, boasting much gold and clear extended plains of grass.
b. Enlarged in comprehension or scope; having a large scope, extensive.
1700. Dryden, Fables, Ded. That your power of doing generous … actions may be as extended as your will.
1863. Lyell, Antiq. Man, 6. The introduction of such a fourth name … must render the use of Pliocene in its original extended sense impossible.
1882. Cussans, Handbk. Heraldry, Introd. 15. Its scope and influence are far more extended.
4. Having or possessing the quality of extension, See EXTENSION 7 b.
1666. Boyle, Orig. Formes & Qual., 3. A Substance extended, divisible and impenetrable.
1710. J. Clarke, Rohault’s Nat. Phil., I. vii. (1729), 25. A Surveyor of Land conceives at first Sight, that a Field is extended.
1785. Reid, Int. Powers, III. v. (1803), I. 483. From the contemplation of finite extended things.
1862. H. Spencer, First Princ., I. iii. § 16. The idea of resistance cannot be separated in thought from the idea of an extended body which offers resistance.
5. Law. a. Valued; seized upon and held in satisfaction for a debt, etc.; levied upon. b. Of a protest: (see EXTEND v. 9 c.).
a. 1625. Cope, in Gutch, Coll. Cur., I. 124. For the extended lands, where ill officers became indebted to the crown, and made an art to have their lands extended at easy rates.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., III. xxvi. 420. The process hereon is usually called an extent … because the sheriff is to cause the lands, &c. to be appraised to their full extended value.
1889. Case Bp. of Lincoln (1891), 53. The costs of the Promoters occasioned by … the said Extended Protest.
Hence Extendedly adv., in an extended manner; at length, fully; to a great extent, continuously, extensively; so as to possess extension. Extendedness, the quality or condition of being extended.
1660. Earl Bristol, Sp., in Parl. Hist. (1763), XXII. 388. To speak unto your Lordships somewhat more extendedly than what is my Use.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 779. Reason dictates, that Here and There, is so to be understood of the Deity, not as if it were Extendedly Here and There.
1791. Gilbert’s Law Evid., I. 147. We must consider the Nature of Bills of Exchange a little more extendedly from their original.
1806. Herschel, in Phil. Trans., XCVI. 460. The polar regions are more extendedly flat than … they would have been if [etc.].
1873. Masson, Drumm. of Hawth., xxi. 477. ‘The Midden-Fecht,’ or, more extendedly, ‘The Midden-Fecht between Vitarva and Neberna.’
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 173. Neither is extendednes the measure of Gods immensity.
1727. Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Fever, A Redness in the Face … Strength, Quickness and Extendedness of the Pulse.
